Confirming JDK 8 GA version

[Erik Joelsson]

The source/makefiles are not aware of the build number. It's assigned 
from an external source at the time of building a promoted build. If you 
want your version number to better match 8 GA, you will have to play 
around with the configure arguments --with-build-number and possibly 
--with-milestone.

Also, as David pointed out, in JDK 8, hotspot has it's own numbering.

/Erik

On 2014-12-03 06:13, David Holmes wrote:
> On 3/12/2014 12:25 PM, Medi Montaseri wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> Just wanted to confirm some issues:
>> I am interested in building the latest (tip) of jdk8 GA release.
>>
>> 1- jdk8 GA is different from jdk8u (u is for updates), I should get 
>> the src from http://hg.openjdk.java.net/jdk8/jdk8
>> 2- The latest tagged version of the src is 
>> "jdk8-b132                       9106:43cb25339b55"
>> 3- I confirm that I have the latest src (for GA) by running "hg tags" 
>> like
>>     unix> cd srcDir/jdk ; hg tags | head -2
>>    tip                             9107:687fd7c7986d
>>    jdk8-b132                   9106:43cb25339b55
>>
>> I go ahead and build everything and then run "java -version" and I see
>>
>> openjdk version "1.8.0-20141202"
>> OpenJDK Runtime Environment (build 1.8.0-20141202-HDS-174701)
>> OpenJDK 64-Bit Server VM (build 25.0-b70, mixed mode)
>>
>> Q- Why am I seeing "build 25.0-b70" ? Does this "b70" has anything to 
>> do with above "jdk8-b132" ?
>
> That is the hotspot version number and build number as used in the GA 
> build of JDK 8. It is correct.
>
> java version "1.8.0"
> Java(TM) SE Runtime Environment (build 1.8.0-b132)
> Java HotSpot(TM) Server VM (build 25.0-b70, mixed mode)
>
> David
> -----
>
>> Thanks
>> Medi
>>