New build = old build on all platforms

[Jonathan Gibbons]

Congratulations indeed.  I know it has taken a lot of work to achieve 
this high degree of fidelity. Well done to all involved.

-- Jon

On 10/05/2012 07:47 AM, Erik Joelsson wrote:
> Today marks a big milestone in the build-infra project as we can now 
> declare that the new build is able to produce equivalent j2sdk and 
> j2re images compared to the old build for all openjdk platforms.
>
> The platforms are:
> linux-x86, linux-x86_64,
> windows-x86, windows-x86_64,
> solaris-x86, solaris-x86_64, solaris-sparc, solaris-sparcv9
> macosx-x86_64
>
> Equivalent does not mean bit by bit equal. There will be some 
> unavoidable differences and the extent of these vary depending on 
> platform. Our definition of equality is encoded into the compare 
> script. More information about how the script works and how to use it 
> can be found here: 
> http://mail.openjdk.java.net/pipermail/build-infra-dev/2012-September/001419.html
>
> Does this mean we are done?
> No, there are a number of issues still to handle. Stability, 
> ergonomics and missing features from the old system, to name a few.
>
> /Erik