Is anyone still building multiple JVMs?

[Magnus Ihse Bursie]

On 2020-02-19 16:59, Baesken, Matthias wrote:
> 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
Is this just to test that minimal is working? If so, you could just as 
well run a separate task with "configure --with-jvm-variants=minimal && 
make hotspot". Unless you are actually shipping this configuration, that 
does not seem like a solid reason for keeping this functionality in the 
build.

/Magnus
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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
>>