Confirming JDK 8 GA version

[Erik Joelsson]

On 2014-12-03 21:54, Medi Montaseri wrote:
> Thanks David and Erik,
>
> A bit more confused...I don't know what hotspot is.
Hotspot is the jvm, basically libjvm.so (and a few of the support libs) 
and has historically been treated as a separate project from the rest of 
the jdk. Because of that it has its own version string. When you run 
java -version in jdk8, you see three lines. The last one that says "VM" 
belongs to Hotspot. It ignores the input from configure.
> I am aware of configure --with-build-number and --with-milestone and indeed use them....and that is why I get
>
> bin/java -version
> openjdk version "1.8.0-20141202"            // note how this version is stamped with a date
> OpenJDK Runtime Environment (build 1.8.0-20141202-HDS-174701)         // note how this portion is also decorated with date, label and more numbers
> OpenJDK 64-Bit Server VM (build 25.0-b70, mixed mode)
>                                                          ^^^^      /// what is this b70
>
> The b70 makes me think that I am not working with the tip
Look at that line with "VM" and "b70" and compare it to the same line 
from jdk8 GA. They are the exact same.
> Let me ask the question another way...
>
> If I pull the latest and "hg tags" says b132 as in
>
>>>      unix> cd srcDir/jdk ; hg tags | head -2
>>>     tip                             9107:687fd7c7986d
>>>     jdk8-b132                   9106:43cb25339b55
>>>
> Can I then be sure that I am indeed working with the tip...?
AFAIK yes.
>
> David...you see how yours is showing the b132
>
>> java version "1.8.0"
>> Java(TM) SE Runtime Environment (build 1.8.0-b132)       // look there is the b132 thing  -b132
>> Java HotSpot(TM) Server VM (build 25.0-b70, mixed mode)
Yes, this shows b132, in the line that is only defined by configure 
arguments, and that you are setting to something else.

/Erik
> Again, I need to make sure I have the latest and be able to query some binary (java or javac) to show that it is the latest.
>
> Thanks
> Medi
>
> ________________________________________
> From: Erik Joelsson [erik.joelsson at oracle.com]
> Sent: Wednesday, December 03, 2014 12:33 AM
> To: David Holmes; Medi Montaseri; build-dev at openjdk.java.net
> Subject: Re: Confirming JDK 8 GA version
>
> 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
>>>