Project Proposal: Build Infrastructure Changes

[Fredrik Öhrström]

>> No doubt it's been useful, but seriously, you just built a hotspot for jdk7, with a completely
different
>> C++ compiler, and a different C++ runtime dependency, and you plop it down into a jdk6 image (that
>> was built with a different C++ compiler, and maybe using a different C++ runtime) and you guys'

>> expect it to work reliably? It doesn't, and likely won't run in a cross compile environment at all.

>Here here!
>In the macosx-port we explicitly added a hook to ignore the gamma test because cross compiling with >the Apple Java SE 6 (which is how _everyone_ gets off the ground) is impossible otherwise.

I totally agree. The gamma launcher must not be run by default when building.

//Fredrik