Build error on jdk8/tl project - Thread.o:(.data.rel+0xbc): undefined reference to JVM_SetNativeThreadName

[Alan Bateman]

On 26/03/2012 02:25, Weijun Wang wrote:
> :
>
> There is completely no harm in setting JDK 8 as BOOTDIR of JDK 8, but 
> I would suggest you using 7u4. If there is anything wrong, you can 
> send us a bug report.
I don't think we can guarantee that jdk8 will always be buildable using 
another jdk8 build as the bootstrap JDK. There will be times were there 
are API changes in-flight that might mean that langtools couldn't build 
(there were many cases in jdk7 where this was the case). So for jdk8 
then I think the best (and only sane) advice is to use jdk7 as the 
bootstrap JDK.

Clearly of course a JDK build needs to be able to build itself and a 
boot cycle build is great test but that may be more than Martijn wants now.

-Alan.