Le roi est mort, vive le roi!

[David Holmes]

On 25/11/2013 1:46 AM, Francis ANDRE wrote:
> Mike
> Le 19/11/2013 19:14, Mike Duigou a écrit :
>> 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.
> Just to confirm my understanding, when Magnus or yourself speak about
> the old system as the jdk7 one, you are talking about the build of the
> subdirectory jdk8/jdk because the jdk8/hotspot is the same as in jdk7.

Not quite. The hotspot build system was not rewritten to require the 
configure-based top-level build, but it was modified to be aware of, and 
work with, a configure-based top-level build. A lot of hotspot 
developers only build hotspot, not the full JDK.

> By the way, I am wondering in the "new" system  how you are planning the
> support the create.bat and the generation of the jcm.vxproj by
> ProjectCreator. VisualStudio C++ is a mandatory tool for testing,
> understanding and debugging hotspot. So what about the "old" hotspot
> build under jdk8?

Updates to those windows specific parts of the hotspot build have taken 
place as problems are detected. If there is something specific that is 
currently an issue then a bug needs to be filed against hotspot->build. 
The hotspot team generally handles this not the "build team".

David
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> Francis
>>
>>> 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.
>>>>
>>>> If you have personal scripts that are using hard-coded makefile
>>>> references, you might need to update them.
>>>>
>>>> Thanks to everyone who helped this major project become reality:
>>>> Fredrik, Erik, Kelly, Tim, Jonas, ...
>>>>
>>>> /Magnus
>>>>
>>
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