When will JDK 9 builds move to requiring the boot JDK be JDK 8?

[Erik Joelsson]

On 2014-04-03 12:24, Seán Coffey wrote:
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> On 03/04/2014 11:17, David Holmes wrote:
>> Don't we also need to modify jprt properties?
> Which properties need changing David ? We should list them.
>
> The strange thing here is that JPRT is already using JDK 8 (b132) as 
> bootstrap. That's how the CORBA build failures passed by me.
>
Yes, I changed JPRT a while back since we "should" already be using JDK 
N-1 as boot. Changing configure to disallow JDK 7 is a different change. 
I think the only thing that really held us back was JDK 8 being properly 
released.

/Erik
> regards,
> Sean.
>
>>
>> David
>>
>> On 3/04/2014 8:12 PM, Chris Hegarty wrote:
>>> FYI.
>>>
>>> This is already reviewed ;-)
>>> http://mail.openjdk.java.net/pipermail/build-dev/2013-December/011406.html 
>>>
>>>
>>> -Chris.
>>>
>>> On 3 Apr 2014, at 11:04, Alan Bateman <Alan.Bateman at oracle.com> wrote:
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>>>> On 03/04/2014 09:53, Erik Joelsson wrote:
>>>>> I don't see any reason not to make the switch. I filed this bug 
>>>>> back in December:
>>>>> https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-8030794
>>>> Thanks, I can't think of any reason either.
>>>>
>>>> So how do we make this happen? Would a mail to jdk9-dev be 
>>>> sufficient to alert folks about this change? Maybe the error from 
>>>> configure when there isn't a JDK 8 available is sufficient?
>>>>
>>>> -Alan
>>>
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