Building Zero and/or Shark

[Andrew Haley]

On 03/06/2012 03:05 PM, Magnus Ihse Bursie wrote:

> The build-infra team (we who are working on creating a new, faster build system 
> -- see e.g. 
> http://mail.openjdk.java.net/pipermail/build-dev/2011-May/004765.html) has 
> recently tried building Zero and Shark on a recent JDK8, both directly on 
> OpenJDK and using IcedTea.
> 
> This has not been successful, resulting in a variety of errors.
> 
> Does anybody know if Zero and/or Shark is "supposed to" be currently buildable 
> in JDK8? Has anyone else build it successfully?

No.  We're working on it.  The biggest problem is invokedynamic support,
which we're having trouble getting to work on Zero.  As I understand it,
ricochet frames are going to go away with a future release, which will
make life much easier for us.

> We'd like to make sure building Zero and Shark is kept viable when we modify the 
> build system; however if the sources does not compile then it's hard to check 
> that we don't break the build system, and unfortunately we don't have the 
> resources to fix compilation problems in Zero and Shark.

Understood.  Once we have all the fixes in, we'll get back to you.

Andrew.