Is anyone still building multiple JVMs?

[Baesken, Matthias]

Hi Magnus,  yes we do.  We build (on Linux only currently)   "--with-jvm-variants=minimal,server"   in our central builds to test that  minimal is still working  and that is was not destroyed by recent changes .

Best Regards, Matthias


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> Date: Wed, 19 Feb 2020 13:26:35 +0100
> From: Magnus Ihse Bursie <magnus.ihse.bursie at oracle.com>
> To: build-dev at openjdk.java.net
> Subject: Is anyone still building multiple JVMs?
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> Are there still any realistic scenarios where anyone builds multiple variants of
> Hotspot in the same configuration?
> 
> This was basically introduced for 32-bit builds, where both the server and the
> client variant of Hotspot were built. In Oracle at least, we stopped building
> multiple JVM variants a long time ago.
> 
> Since the build system is taxed with convoluted logic in places just to support
> this, I?d prefer to remove it if it is not used anymore. So, is there anyone out
> there, still doing this?
> 
> /Magnus
>