New build = old build on all platforms

[Martijn Verburg]

+1 - thanks for all of the hard work guys - you've directly enabled
more of us to try out OpenJDK, there was lots of enthusiasm for this
at JavaOne and we're now able to arrange "Build OpenJDK" hands on labs
at JFokus, Devoxx and other large conferences :).

On 5 October 2012 08:29, Jonathan Gibbons <jonathan.gibbons at oracle.com> wrote:
> 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
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