Backport multiple toolchains support to JDK8?

[Alexander Smundak]

And I guess the successor of the 8u60 is going to be the last JDK8 release?

On Fri, May 8, 2015 at 2:00 AM, Magnus Ihse Bursie
<magnus.ihse.bursie at oracle.com> wrote:
> On 2015-05-08 04:46, Alexander Smundak wrote:
>>
>> I have backported "8034788: Rewrite toolchain.m4 to support multiple
>> toolchains per platform." and related changes to jdk8u40 in order to
>> build JDK8 with Clang/LLVM on Linux. Can I mail this change for the
>> review?
>
>
> JDK 8u40 is already released. Did you mean 8u60?
>
> To get a backport in 8u60 means you need to get approval according to
> http://openjdk.java.net/projects/jdk8u/groundrules.html.
>
> If the backport does not apply cleanly (which I suspect in this case), then
> you also need a review from the build team.
>
> As I understand, 8u60 is already feature complete, and this change in
> question is quite intrusive. I would not recommend backporting it to 8u60 at
> this point.
>
> /Magnus