Cross compilation discussion

[erik.joelsson at oracle.com]

On 12/11/23 01:24, Andrew Haley wrote:
> Maybe, or at least fails the principle of least surprise. I think I may
> be missing something important here: what is the downside of treating a
> build as a cross compilation? Is it simply that more work has to be done,
> or something else?
>
Yes, the drawback is that significantly more work has to be done. If we 
cannot use the target JDK as "build JDK" to run tools like jmod and 
jlink, we need to either supply a build JDK or produce one during the 
build. This means building minimally viable JDK for the build platform, 
including libjvm and some other native libs and launchers.

/Erik