2nd and 3rd tier targets

Jonathan Gibbons jonathan.gibbons at oracle.com
Mon Nov 7 10:50:49 PST 2011


New-build team,

Right now, I imagine you're all busy on what I could describe as the 
"1st tier" targets in the Makefiles -- simply being able to build JDK as 
needed on all platforms.

I wonder if you've given thought to supporting and/or providing 
additional interesting targets.

For example, I could imagine providing "2nd tier" targets which are of 
interest to all, but which are not required as part of building JDK.   
Running FindBugs or CheckStyle might come into this category. Then there 
are targets specific to a component, which I call "3rd tier" targets. 
For example, langtools/make/build.xml has a target to run a utility to 
generate an HTML file containing examples of as many as possible of the 
diagnostics that can be run by javac.

-- Jon





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