boot JDK not recognized for building JDK8

[Wang Weijun]

You should add a "=", like this

   --with-boot-jdk=/....

HTH
--Max

On Mar 4, 2014, at 18:57, Eda <eda at netbeans.org> wrote:

> Versions:
> tip of JDK8 from Mercurial
> Debian GNU/Linux unstable/sid
> OpenJDK 7 with javac 1.7.0_51 installed from distribution package. javac is in the execution PATH.
> 
> The configure fails with a message that it does not find the JDK.
> Then running by:
> Path/To/configure --with-boot-jdk /usr/lib/jvm/java-7-openjdk-amd64
> produces:
> Invalid configuration `/usr/lib/jvm/java-7-openjdk-amd64': machine `/usr/lib/jvm/java-7-openjdk' not recognized
> 
> I searched  https://bugs.openjdk.java.net  and found nothing.
> What knowledge or suggestions do you have?
> 
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