JDK8 - bypassing the building of the images

[Erik Joelsson]

Unfortunately rt.jar is part of the images build. The fastest turnaround 
incremental builds for your usecase is currently reached by doing this:

make jdk-only JDK_FILTER="javax/swing javax/accessibility java/beans"

You don't get an rt.jar, but you can run the exploded image directly 
from <outputdir>/bin/java and most things should work.

/Erik

On 2013-09-12 19:51, Pete Brunet wrote:
> I made some changes for debugging in jdk8.  jdk ran for 9.5 min and
> images for a little over 13 min.  I'm currently changing code in
> javax.swing, javax.accessibility, and java.beans.  All those live in
> rt.jar so it would be nice to be able to copy a newly built rt.jar to an
> existing image without having to rebuild the images.  However, I didn't
> find rt.jar in the jdk tree.  Does it exist; maybe I just missed it?
>
> I know those are long build times but after trying lots of things I
> haven't had any success in getting to the low build times others
> experience.  A new SSD should arrive today so hopefully that will be
> running by tomorrow.  I'll report the results of that in another
> thread.  So maybe I won't care about build times after that but I
> suspect there are others on the list also suffering from long build
> times who would be interested in the answer to the above question.
>
> Pete