OpenJDK builds: Ant build issues with jdk (netbeans) sub-projects - awt2d, j2se and jarzip

[Jonathan Gibbons]

Mani,

I think you'd be better off working with the groups (if any) using these 
projects. They are likely to have ideas of how to evolve these projects 
in the context of the new build system.

-- Jon

On 01/05/2013 04:05 PM, Mani Sarkar wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I have made some progress with the below three sub-projects, and have
> successfully built jarzip. But still get new error messages with awt2d and
> j2se.
>
> I answered my own question about the -source 8, its basically expecting the
> images/j2sdk-image to be assigned to the respective ALT_... variables via
> the make.options property in build.properties for all three projects.
>
> Unfortunately I wasn't able to build swing via the .../javax/swing/ folder
> where the required make file(s) are present.
>
> But my other queries still stand, if you can throw some light on them, it
> would be help make progress with these builds using the new build system.
>
> Thanks.
>
> Regards,
> Mani
>
> On Sat, Jan 5, 2013 at 12:39 AM, Mani Sarkar <sadhak001 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Hi All,
>>
>> I have furthered my pursuits with building *OpenJDK projects *by building
>> the JDK sub-projects like swing, etc... but came across issues with
>> building 3 different projects which I wasn't able to build due
>> configuration issues. These sub-projects are located under the netbeans
>> subfolder under the .../jdk/make/ folder.
>>
>> They all are getting compiled for version 8 with the below args (which is
>> leading to a build failure):
>>
>>     -source 8 -target 8
>>
>> *jdk/awt2d*
>>
>> https://github.com/neomatrix369/BuildHelpers/blob/master/EclipseProjectsForOpenJDK/Logs/jdk/awt2d/awt2dAntBuild.log
>>
>> *jdk/j2se*
>>
>> https://github.com/neomatrix369/BuildHelpers/blob/master/EclipseProjectsForOpenJDK/Logs/jdk/j2se/j2seAntBuild.log
>>
>> *jdk/jarzip*
>>
>> https://github.com/neomatrix369/BuildHelpers/blob/master/EclipseProjectsForOpenJDK/Logs/jdk/jarzip/jarzipAntBuild.log
>>
>> Where is this version configuration set for these projects, that I can
>> change either through file changes or alternative build.properties setting
>> changes? My other question is why are there no make files available for the
>> jdk sub-projects (i.e. *awt2d, j2se,* etc...) except for under *
>> javax/swing* has make files to build this project instead Ant build.xml
>> files are available. Is it possible to hook these ant files with the new
>> build system, instead of only being able to build the sub-projects via the
>> old build system (using the ALT_... variables via make.options).
>>
>> Thanks.
>>
>> Regards,
>> mani
>>
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