Coming soon: JDK 9 Platform/Compiler upgrades at Oracle

[Martin Buchholz]

AFAIK there is no way to build with a newer compiler and remain compatible
with older runtimes.

Are you actually using gcc 4.8 built in some magic backward-compatible way
or are you using an older gcc?
If you have magic spells, please share.


On Mon, Jun 9, 2014 at 1:37 AM, Erik Joelsson <erik.joelsson at oracle.com>
wrote:

>
> 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
>