New builds from the build-infra team

[Scott Kovatch]

If this works on the Mac out of the box I'm buying you a beer. All of the caveats about gnumake 3.81 make me suspicious, though.

-- Scott K.

On Nov 1, 2012, at 11:38 AM, Kelly O'Hair <kelly.ohair at oracle.com> wrote:

> 
> Pardon the wide email, but this impacts everyone building the OpenJDK jdk8/jdk8 derived forests.
> 
> Please only reply to the build-infra-dev mailing list, or just me.
> 
> With some recent integrations from the build-infra project into jdk8/jdk8 repositories, the build-infra team
> would like to get more exposure of the new builds. These jdk8/jdk8 changes will start showing up in various
> jdk8 and team forests over the next few weeks. The default is still the old builds, but both builds work in most
> cases for OpenJDK as far as we know.
> 
> At a very high level, the intent is that once you get a forest:
>  hg clone http://hg.openjdk.java.net/jdk8/jdk8    j8
>  cd j8
>  sh ./get_source.sh
> 
> You should be able to simply configure&&make (the ultimate goal is this simple anyway), e.g.
>   sh ./configure
>   make NEWBUILD=true     # The NEWBUILD=true will become the default when we formally switch.
> 
> Where "make" is GNU make 3.81, and your system has all the requires packages and PATH contains the
> needed tools. Note that on Windows, MKS unix utilities cannot be used with the new builds, just CYGWIN
> is recommended at this time.