Why demo/sample before launchers?

[Weijun Wang]

Thanks for the info.

If the new image is not used, does that mean there can be some kind of 
dependency check in Makefiles for demo/sample?  Currently these two are 
always rebuilt entitely and occupies most of the time in doing an 
increment jdk build.

Thanks
Max


On 12/06/2010 11:38 AM, Kelly O'Hair wrote:
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> 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
>