Why demo/sample before launchers?

[Kelly O'Hair]

On Dec 5, 2010, at 5:12 PM, Weijun Wang wrote:

> Hi Kelly
>
> I noticed that in jdk build, demo and sample are before launchers.  
> In a jdk-only build, JDK_IMPORT_PATH's javac is used. Otherwise,  
> BOOTDIR's javac using javac.jar built from langtools is used. Why  
> not build launchers first and use the brand new javac to compile  
> demo/sample?

The goal was to try and completely build a jdk image without using  
that same image as part of the build process.
That was why I pushed the launcher creations to the very end.
It allows for cross compilation builds, where we can't necessarily run  
the jdk image being built.
Granted, we obviously still need to make more adjustments for cross  
compile builds to work really well.

-kto

>
> Thanks
> Max