Official Boot JDK [Was: OpenJDK rebuilding on windows takes a long time]

[Kelly O'Hair]

On Feb 13, 2013, at 9:08 AM, Andrew Haley wrote:

> On 02/13/2013 04:45 PM, Kelly O'Hair wrote:
>> The official boot jdk for jdk8 is jdk7u7 we cannot guarantee anything else will work, although it should,
> 
> Y'know, even I didn't know that.  I do now.  :-)
> 
> Andrew.
> 

We moved to 7u7 so that all platforms (including the Mac) would be using the same boot jdk and
it was a fairly reliable one on all systems.
Changing the boot jdk is not something we like to do very often.
We probably failed to advertise this change very well.

I'm working on the README-builds.html file now for jdk8, should be pushing in a new version soon.

Status is here:
http://hg.openjdk.java.net/build-infra/jdk8/raw-file/tip/README-builds.html

-kto