Building a Minimal, Self-Contained Bootstrap JDK

[Fredrik Öhrström]

There is a configuration option that is called KERNEL, if you manage
to enable this option, the result is supposed to be a minimally sized
JVM with very few runtime options....

For the JDK itself, it is such a tingletangle of interdependencies that
it is not really possible to compile just a part of it. Jigsaw is supposed
to fix that...

//Fredrik

2011/8/25 Shea Levy <shea at shealevy.com>:
> Hello,
>
> I am responsible for maintaining openjdk for the Nix Packages Collection
> (http://www.nixos.org/nixpkgs), a repository for the source-based package
> manager nix (http://www.nixos.org/nix). Currently, we are using the Oracle
> JDK 6 to bootstrap our openjdk-7 builds, but we would like to use openjdk-7
> itself as a bootstrap compiler. What is the best way to build a minimal
> (only the tools/libraries/etc. needed to build openjdk, taking up the
> smallest size possible), self-contained (e.g. static linking) jdk?
>
> Regards,
> Shea Levy
>