Windows build failure when building JLI

[Magnus Ihse Bursie]

On 2012-09-06 12:53, Artem Ananiev wrote:
>
> On 9/6/2012 5:43 AM, Kelly O'Hair wrote:
>>
>> On Sep 4, 2012, at 4:53 AM, Magnus Ihse Bursie wrote:
>>
>>>> BTW, what's the reason to continue the new build infrastructure
>>>> development in a separate project (build-infra), not in the
>>>> master workspace?
>>>
>>> There are strict formal rules on the build forest, that every
>>> single commit should have a WebRev and a CR. That would be highly
>>> impractical since build-infra is still under active development.
>
> Usually a project is merged to JDK mainline, when it's more or less 
> ready - at least, this is what we did with Mac OS X port. So in other 
> words, the new build system should be considered as experimental at 
> the current moment?

Yes. The decision was made to start pushing the new build system to the 
mainline, as a non-default addition, at an early stage to get wide 
exposure to different build environments, even though it was not "ready".

/Magnus