RFR : 8039131: CORBA build issue : sun.misc.JavaAWTAccess

[Alan Bateman]

I'd suggest holding off a bit until there is a conclusion on the 
build-dev list (Folks using 7u7 will need to update anyway, if not today 
then maybe very soon).

-Alan


On 03/04/2014 10:43, Seán Coffey wrote:
> The CORBA build issue continues. I was incorrectly using 7u40 as the 
> bootstrap JDK. 7u7 is still the version that RE uses and that causes 
> an issue since sun.misc.JavaAWTAccess wasn't introduced until 7u9.
>
> The fix proposed is short term. There's a discussion underway on 
> build-dev to bump the JDK bootstrap version to JDK 8 for JDK 9 builds.
>
> Build and tests are good. I've used 7u7 this time for bootstrap!
>
> bug : https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-8039131
> webrev : http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~coffeys/webrev.8039131/webrev/
>
> regards,
> Sean.