CYGWIN make is now at 4.01.

[Erik Joelsson]

Hello,

I tried building with 4.0 in cygwin and it seemed to work fine. I doubt 
there will be issues, but we will not move the official build there for 
a long while yet. Until proven otherwise, I see no reason to hinder 
developers from building with 4.x. Older versions of make are much worse 
since we rely on features in make 3.81.

/Erik

On 2013-10-21 19:09, Bradford Wetmore wrote:
> 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
>>