RFR: JDK-8242863: Bump minimum boot jdk to JDK 14

[David Holmes]

Hi EriK,

On 18/04/2020 1:13 am, Erik Joelsson wrote:
> Good catch Jan!
> 
> Here is a new webrev where I derive those values from the list of 
> accepted boot jdk versions.
> 
> http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~erikj/8242863/webrev.02/index.html

Boot JDK bump and new code to set source/target looks good.

I don't understand the sudden need for special handling of sparcv9 in 
jib-profiles.js ??

Just an observation but do we really need to track the build number for 
the GA build of a release, common.boot_jdk_build_number ?

Thanks,
David

> /Erik
> 
> On 2020-04-17 02:41, Jan Lahoda wrote:
>> Should the boot JDK's source and target level be updated to 14 as 
>> well, so that the interim javac can use JDK 14 features? Or is that 
>> automatic?
>>
>> I can still see -source 13 here:
>> https://github.com/openjdk/jdk/blob/07156dd25b0ac468681b33181516bab34bb0c93d/make/autoconf/boot-jdk.m4#L348 
>>
>>
>> Thanks,
>>     Jan
>>
>> On 17. 04. 20 10:12, Magnus Ihse Bursie wrote:
>>> On 2020-04-16 18:54, Erik Joelsson wrote:
>>>> JDK 14 is now GA. The minimum boot JDK version for mainline/JDK 15 
>>>> should be bumped to this version.
>>>>
>>>> Bug: https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-8242863
>>>>
>>>> Webrev: http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~erikj/8242863/webrev.01/index.html
>>> Looks good to me.
>>>
>>> /Magnus
>>>>
>>>> /Erik
>>>>
>>>