Coming soon: JDK 9 Platform/Compiler upgrades at Oracle

[Erik Joelsson]

On 2014-06-07 21:26, Florian Weimer wrote:
> On 06/05/2014 11:46 PM, Tim Bell wrote:
>
>> - Linux - Oracle Linux 6.4 64-bit / GCC 4.8.2
>
> Are you sure the GCC version is correct?
>
Yes, we are not using the GCC bundled with the Linux distribution, but 
have instead opted to create our own compiler package from source. The 
compiler packages are actually based on Oracle Linux 5 so that the built 
JDK bits will be compatible with older Linux versions without forcing us 
to run the builds on older OS versions. The scripts used to generate 
these packages can be found in make/devkit/ in the root repo.

/Erik