Workaround for partial builds

Alan Bateman Alan.Bateman at oracle.com
Fri Dec 21 13:12:51 UTC 2012


On 21/12/2012 12:58, Fredrik Öhrström wrote:
> :
>
> The example Erik gave: make jdk-only JDK_FILTER=java/awt
>
> Be aware that this workaround is of limited use, since it does not assist in
> recompiling dependent packages, if the public api of java.awt was changed,
> you need to know the 79 other packages that depend on java.awt and
> recompile those
> manually. sjavac does all this for you. Please try build-infra with
> --enable-sjavac
>
> //Fredrik
Right, it's on a wing and a prayer, and essentially how incremental 
builds are done in the jdk repo with the old build too.

-Alan.



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