jdk 8 building just jdk

[Alan Bateman]

On 26/07/2013 20:38, Mike Duigou wrote:
> On Jul 26 2013, at 18:41 , Pete Brunet wrote:
>
>> Am doing my first jdk8 build.  After reading through the build readme I
>> didn't see any info on building just jdk and using an import lib.  I'm
>> guessing this is no longer possible but checking...
> It's probably possible but usually not necessary. Even on a modest system a full build takes only 20 minutes and an incremental rebuild is less than 3 minutes (even faster if you use sjavac or JDK_FILTER).
>
I agree, it shouldn't really be necessary to do partial builds any more 
(it was way too fragile in the past with the old build). That said, the 
new build does have --with-import-* options to configure the build to 
import some of the components from another JDK.

-Alan