jdk8 makefile changes

[David Holmes]

On 10/07/2012 11:05 AM, Omair Majid wrote:
> On 07/09/2012 07:44 PM, David Holmes wrote:
>> Hi Omair,
>>
>> The static vs dynamic link check that you see is only in place for the
>> JDK libraries not hotspot. For hotspot (which has not been modified as
>> part of the build-infra project) you still need to pass STATIC_CXX=false
>> as a make variable on the make invocation.
>
> Ah, false alarm then. Please ignore :)

Not a false alarm at all - we need to document these issues :)

> And yes, "make images STATIC_CXX=false" makes the build work for me.

Excellent.

Note I'm not part of the build-infra project just an end-user :)

Cheers,
David

> Thanks,
> Omair
>
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