jdk 8 building just jdk

[Mike Duigou]

MacOS in my closest config. Windows is quite a bit slower on comparable hardware,and an SSD also makes a huge difference. I would guess that these times seem about reasonable for a clean windows build 

On Jul 26, 2013, at 9:40 PM, Pete Brunet <peter.brunet at oracle.com> wrote:

> Hi Mike, Thanks.  Below are my build times (prior to a crash in jdk). 
> I'm running 64 bit Win 7 on a 2.53 GHz dual core 8 GB Lenovo T500.  I'm
> using cygwin.
> 
> langtools: 4:34
> hotspot: 18:29
> corba: 2:51
> jaxp: 5:31
> jaxws: 10:26
> jdk: failed
> 
> So I'm up to about 40 min with just those.  Are you running cygwin or
> MinGW/MSYS?
> 
> Pete
> 
> On 7/26/13 10:38 PM, 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).
>> 
>> Mike
>