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

[Jonathan Gibbons]

Alan,

Really? I'm not sure I agree.  If you have a complete and successful 
build of JDK 8, then you should pretty much always be able to use that 
as a bootstrap JDK.

That being said, I do not disagree with the general advice to use 7u4 as 
the bootstrap JDK.

-- Jon


On 03/26/2012 03:37 AM, Alan Bateman wrote:
> 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.