RFR (M): Enable HotSpot build with Clang

David Holmes david.holmes at oracle.com
Wed May 22 21:53:44 PDT 2013


On 23/05/2013 1:59 PM, Christian Thalinger wrote:
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> On May 22, 2013, at 2:28 PM, David Chase <david.r.chase at oracle.com> wrote:
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>> Any idea how this interacts with "new build"?
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> It shouldn't since it doesn't set USE_CLANG=true.

Let me rephrase David's question :)

Will this allow me to simply point configure at clang, using 
--with-toolkit, and have everything just work?

I suspect not as, as you say, it doesn't set USE_CLANG=true.

Note I suspect the same is true for attempting to build on Solaris using 
gcc.

David H.

> -- Chris
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>> David
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