<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">The make sanity checks, and the README-builds.html file has been collecting dust kind of purposely.<div>We are working on a new build infrastructure setup for jdk8, and I'm reluctant to spend much time on these</div><div>things because they may or may not make any sense to keep around after we cut over to the new build infrastructure.</div><div>And we need to concentrate on that new build-infra work.</div><div><br></div><div>-kto</div><div><br><div><div>On Apr 21, 2012, at 8:07 AM, Martijn Verburg wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><div class="gmail_extra">Hi John,</div><div class="gmail_extra"><br></div><div class="gmail_extra">I'm not sure going forwards if the documentation is supposed to cover all OpenJDK forests (in terms of version numbers, that is, OpenJDK 7 and OpenJDK 8) or whether the documentation will diverge depending on what forest you're in. I've got a few doc patches I'm holding off on until we know which way this is going to go.</div>
<div class="gmail_extra"><br></div><div class="gmail_extra">I've CC'd in Cecilia and Iris, (Ben and I had a meeting with Cecilia and Tomas about this last week) to see if they can shed some light, as I know they're intending to update the developer docs shortly.</div>
<div class="gmail_extra"><br></div><div class="gmail_extra">Cheers,</div><div class="gmail_extra">Martijn<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On 17 April 2012 15:03, John Oliver <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:johno@insightfullogic.com" target="_blank">johno@insightfullogic.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">I was building jdk8 and noticed that your documentation generally states that you need a jdk 1.6.0 as a bootstrap, in the following files:<br>
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<a href="http://hg.openjdk.java.net/jdk8/build/raw-file/tip/README-builds.html" target="_blank">http://hg.openjdk.java.net/<u></u>jdk8/build/raw-file/tip/<u></u>README-builds.html</a><br>
<a href="http://hg.openjdk.java.net/jdk8/build/raw-file/tip/README" target="_blank">http://hg.openjdk.java.net/<u></u>jdk8/build/raw-file/tip/README</a><br>
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When I tried to build using 1.6.0 I received the following:<br>
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ERROR:Your BOOTDIR environment variable doesnot point<br>
to a validJDK for bootstrapping this build.<br>
A JDK 8 build must be bootstrapped using<br>
JDK 1.7.0 fcs (or later).<br>
Apparently, your bootstrapJDK is version1.6.0<br>
Please update yourALT_BOOTDIR settingand start your build again.<br>
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When I retried using 1.7.0 as a bootstrap it was fine. I presume those files need to be updated to reflect that you now need at least 1.7.0.<br>
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John<br>
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