Build error on OSX

[Mike Duigou]

On Sep 23 2012, at 22:46 , Henri Gomez wrote:

> 2012/9/23 Henri Gomez <henri.gomez at gmail.com>:
>>> This looks like a problem with the old build process.
>>> 
>>> For the lambda repo we've almost entirely shifted over to the much simpler and faster build-infra build system. This is also happening because we expect that the old (existing) build system will be retired in jdk8 quite soon.
> 
> Did Lambda team is officially switching to new build system and won't
> fix old build system ?

Yes, for development we have switched. Our release engineering is in the process of switching. We have switched now because the openjdk8 main switch is expected to happen before lambda integrates into openjdk8 main. ie. We will have to switch before integrating.

I have been ensuring that the old build continues to work at each binary drop as a fallback/backup process. This unfortunately means that between binary drops it may break.

We have had good success using the new build on linux, solaris and mac. We've previously validated the build on Windows but it was not checked closely in the last binary drop. (There have been no problem reports though).

For lambda repos, I strongly recommend the new build.

Mike