New build = old build on all platforms

[Mike Duigou]

Congratulations!

This is an important milestone.

I am very eager to see the old build system retired and the rest of the planned enhancements to the new build system.

Mike

On Oct 5 2012, at 07:47 , 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