Issue with Jdk-9 build with boot_jdk as JDK-9

[Erik Joelsson]

The officially supported boot jdk for JDK N is always JDK N-1. Using JDK 
N should work in most cases, but depending on how old the JDK N build is 
compared to the sources you are building, all sorts of issues may arise.

/Erik

On 2015-10-27 12:51, Bhanu Gopularam wrote:
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> I am trying to build JDK-9 from dev repo with JDk-9 as BOOT_JDK. I am facing some issues.
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> I have created JDK image with latest jdk-9-dev codebase from hg repo tagged as jdk9-b88. I am using this jdk-image as BOOT_JDK for creating JDK-9 build once again. The JDK-9 build is failing while locating a directory, the modules directory is searched in jdk/lib/* instead of jdk/*.
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> I would like to know if it is possible to build JDK-9 using JDK-9 as BOOT_JDK ? I came across few JBS bugs reporting issues with JDK-9 builds but I didn't see any mention about version of BOOT_JDK supported for building JDK-9. Please let me know if this is supported way to build JDK image.
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> Thanks,
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> Bhanu