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[Scott Kovatch]

On Feb 20, 2012, at 5:33 AM, Henri Gomez wrote:

> 2012/2/20 Edvard Wendelin <edvard.wendelin at oracle.com>:
>> Hi,
>> 
>> jdk7u-dev is the primary development forest for non-hotspot changes for 7
>> updates. This is the forest individual developers use.
>> 
>> jdk7u is the stable master forest where the integrators push  changes from
>> different integration areas (hotspot-main, jdk7u-dev, CPU releases etc).
>> Fixes going into the master should be well tested, which is why the
>> integrator run extra testing before pushing changes from integration area to
>> master. The Oracle JDK developer preview builds published on jdk7.java.net
>> are built from the master forest.
> 
> Ok thanks to clarify.
> 
> To build OSX OpenJDK, I used jdk7u-dev. May be time to go to jdk7u
> 
> BTW, I notice a change between them relative to OSX build.
> 
> OSX stuff (Contents/Home) moved from j2sdk-image to j2sdk-bundle and
> from j2re-image to j2re-bundle last week on jdk7u-dev
> It still under j2sdk-image and from j2re-image on jdk7u
> 
> Which one will be the good one ?


Once the next integration from jdk7u-dev to jdk7u happens, both will be copying the final output into j2sdk-bundle and j2re-bundle.

This was done because the current scheme prevented you from doing a self-hosted build because some of the tool binaries were getting moved out from underneath the bootdir during the build, causing it to fail.

-- Scott K.

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Scott Kovatch
scott.kovatch at oracle.com
Santa Clara/Pleasanton, CA