OpenJDK Build Infrastructure Project Quarterly Report

[Kelly O'Hair]

State of the OpenJDK Build Infrastructure Project (last report was Sept 2011 maybe?)

The  build-infra Project has been progressing nicely. We transitioned from primarily working
on jdk7 as a base to jdk8 which has been our priority for quite a while now.

Currently the new build in jdk8 can be performed by running:
    cd common/makefiles
    ../autoconf/configure
    make

Of course everyone's mileage may vary, and that's one of the efforts going on now.
We will be continuing to stabilize the build on all platforms and with all standard build variations
in the coming months, including doing detailed build result comparisons to the old builds, and
eventually also doing jigsaw builds.
At some point we will be changing the default build from the old Makefiles to the new ones, but
not until we are satisfied that we have a reliable and stable system and have satisfied the developers
that what we have is ready for prime time.

Many thanks to the entire build-infra team (http://openjdk.java.net/census#build-infra) for all
the hard work on this project.

-kto