[8] Review request for 8001764: vsvars.sh should support VS2012

Tim Bell tim.bell at oracle.com
Mon Oct 29 16:29:28 UTC 2012


Anthony:

> Please review a fix for 
> http://bugs.sun.com/bugdatabase/view_bug.do?bug_id=8001764 at:
>
> http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~anthony/8-46-full-vs2012.0/

These changes look fine.

> We're not yet switching JDK builds to VS2012. However, the vsvars.sh 
> script is useful for other applications in order to set up the build 
> environment, so I think the proposed changes should be useful. Once we 
> start using VS2012 (or VS2014, or whatever it will be) for JDK, the 
> vsvars.sh will already support that.

Changing compilers needs to come down from the release team.  I hope you 
realize that.  If they do not make a decision soon, VS2012 or later will 
wait until JDK9.

Tim




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