Lambda repo now supports new build infrastructure

[Mike Duigou]

On Apr 23 2012, at 06:22 , Magnus Ihse Bursie wrote:

> Mike,
> 
> On 2012-04-20 20:51, Mike Duigou wrote:
>> Maurizio (who had a lot more work to do in this than I did) and I have done another merge into the lambda repo from the jdk8 master repo. Part of this merge is the new build infrastructure. (see<http://openjdk.java.net/projects/build-infra/guide.html>  for more info)
>> 
>> A clean build of the entire lambda repo using the new build system is 23 minutes on my wimpy laptop compared to 1 hour 40 minutes with the old build system. Incremental rebuilds are also much, much faster.
>> 
>> We're going to give the lambda repo a chance to settle and bake for a few days at least before generating a new binary build. In the meantime it's now easier (and faster) than ever to generate your own builds!
> 
> That's great news! I'm glad it worked out to be faster -- that's not even been the priority right now. :-)
> 
> I'm a bit curious, though, since the times differ so much: do you compare with a "make images" in the new system, or just a "make (all)"?

Your suspicion is correct. I was not building images with the new build. This will reduce the difference, but not by much. Is anything able to use the results of the new build's default make target? Are there multiple divergent targets following that step? Why not make images as part of "all"?

> /Magnus