Le roi est mort, vive le roi!

[Mike Duigou]

On Nov 19 2013, at 09:26 , Francis ANDRE <francis.andre.kampbell at orange.fr> wrote:

> Magnus
> 
> By the way, what is exactly the old build system??? I am aware of the jdk7u build system,

Early in jdk8 development it used the same build system as jdk7. A new build system was developed and eventually replaced the "old" build system. The removal in this changeset removed the obsolete legacy build system. There are no plans to backport the new build system to java 7.

> the jdk8 build system, but what is the old one?
> 
> Francis
> 
> Le 18/11/2013 19:02, Magnus Ihse Bursie a écrit :
>> So, finally it has happened. The old build system is now removed. The patch was just submitted to the tl forest, from where it will move to master in a few days.
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>> If you have personal scripts that are using hard-coded makefile references, you might need to update them.
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>> Thanks to everyone who helped this major project become reality: Fredrik, Erik, Kelly, Tim, Jonas, ...
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>> /Magnus
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