CYGWIN make is now at 4.01.

[Bradford Wetmore]

Thanks Tim,

This bug was fixed today by to allow for 4.x.  Does this mean that 4.x 
is supported, or just that sanity won't kill the build and you're on the 
bleeding edge that hopefully "should" work?

http://hg.openjdk.java.net/jdk8/build/rev/1a853fac18ff

Brad



On 10/20/2013 10:58 AM, Tim Bell wrote:
> On 10/20/13 09:49 AM, Bradford Wetmore wrote:
>>
>> Have not researched how 4.01 is different from 3.82.90-1.  Has anyone
>> tried it?
>>
>> As an FYI, 3.81 is no longer available from the normal Cygwin "setup"
>> distribution.  The "previous" version is now 3.82.90-1.
>>
>
> See bug # JDK-8026528 [build] configure does not recognize newer make in
> cygwin
>
> http://bugs.sun.com/view_bug.do?bug_id=8026528
>
> The warning bears repeating:  there is no 'undo' in Cygwin, so be
> careful about updating to some bleeding edge version of the tools that
> won't work with the build.  This is why we probably will not update our
> internal build systems again until JDK 9.
>
> Tim
>