Running modified hotspot

Aleksey Shipilev aleksey.shipilev at oracle.com
Fri Oct 31 14:10:05 UTC 2014


On 10/31/2014 04:40 PM, Manas Thakur wrote:
> I am new to hotspot development, but posting this question as I
> couldn’t solve my problem with existing material. I have built
> openjdk8 on a linux system. If I change something in the hotspot
> source (e.g., printing something), from where should I check the
> changed outputs. I don’t want to re-build the complete jdk again. 

Do "make images" from the forest root, then look for JDK binaries in
build/*/images/j2sdk-image/. If you don't touch JDK, it will be
"rebuilt" very fast.

-Aleksey.





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