Is the "skip boot cycle" trick still needed?

[Jonathan Gibbons]

On 09/11/2012 07:45 AM, Magnus Ihse Bursie wrote:
> On 2012-09-11 01:00, Jonathan Gibbons wrote:
>> Can we have a makefile target that invokes your script?   E.g. make 
>> full-build.
>>
>> It is easier to document the list of public targets supported by the 
>> Makefiles than to describe a set of assorted extra scripts. And, it 
>> would fit more uniformly into the JPRT infrastructure.
>
> I agree that the boot cycle build fits better in as a make target.
>
> I have written an alternative solution for performing a boot cycle 
> build, which I am about to check in. Now there is a new target, 
> "bootcycle-images" which basically does:
> 1) make images
> 2) make images but with a new output directory 
> (build/<conf-name>/bootcycle-build) and using the previously build 
> image as bootjdk, instead of the one specified to configure.
>
> As a result of implementing this, the autoconf files got some nice 
> cleanup and refactoring as well. :-)
>
> /Magnus

That sounds great; well done, and thank you.

-- Jon