Do you run with $OUTPUT/jdk (exploded classes, pre-images)?

[Michael McMahon]

On 14/04/14 15:37, Paul Sandoz wrote:
> On Apr 14, 2014, at 4:36 PM, Chris Hegarty <chris.hegarty at oracle.com> wrote:
>>> Even so i still use a little ant script that compiles only selected packages and places the compiled classes in the right location (it can also stuff 'em in rt.jar as well if i need to patch that instead).
>>>
>>> While there have been huge improvements to the build process i am still too impatience :-)
>> make JDK_FILTER=java/util/stream  ;-)
>>
> Thanks, Alan also told me that off list. You can tell i know next to nothing about the make files! Although i suspect the ant script is more efficient at updating the rt.jar of an existing image.
>
> Paul.
>
I find the images build is fast enough. It never seems to add more than 
20-30 seconds
to an incremental build and it's useful to be running in the exact jar 
file/directory layout of the product.

Michael.