Questions about Hotspot

[Mani Sarkar]

Hi all,

I liked the message on the Hotspot link on the OpenJDK page:
http://openjdk.java.net/groups/hotspot/

Very inviting and full of development and collaborative spirit - basically
positive and high spirited!

I have a few questions that I have gathered from other Hotspot builders,
I'll lay them out below:
1) What artefacts (objects) are built as a result of running the make
commands on Hotspot? Can I find them in the
*.../hotspot/build/...*sub-folder? There's also a Hotspot folder under
the main build folder - how
different is this folder from the previous one I mentioned. Would we find
the same artefacts / objects in these two folders, we are finding they are
not the same? Is there any documentation of what each of the folder or
sub-folder is meant host?

2) Can I run the launchers, and other executables built from the above
process?

3) Where can we gain more knowledge on how to build and debug Hotspot - has
anyone does this already and blogged it for us?

We have also noticed that when we do a clean or incremental build, we don't
see a "Finished building..." or "No builds required" message - it would
help to see such and other verbose messages.

Thanks.

Regards,
Mani

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