Is the "skip boot cycle" trick still needed?

[Kelly O'Hair]

On Sep 10, 2012, at 9:24 AM, Jonathan Gibbons wrote:

> 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

That sounds fine.

-kto