Do we need to be careful about the word "recommended" here? There is a
big difference between "compiles fine" and "works fine". Anyone using
alternate compilers to build the JDK (Hotspot in particular) may
encounter compiler specific bugs at runtime.
Do we have a big disclaimer/warning somewhere about this? Any bug
reports would need to include which compiler was used.
David Holmes
John Coomes said the following on 06/20/08 06:54:
Mario Torre ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
Il giorno lun, 31/03/2008 alle 18.37 +0200, Clemens Eisserer ha scritto:
Hello,
I wonder which version of GCC is recommended for building OpenJDK?
4.3 will probably not work out-of-the-box, should I downgrade to 4.2 or 4.1?
...
Thanks a lot, lg Clemens
I had to "steal" a couple of patches from icedtea to be able to build
hotspot with gcc 4-3, works fine otherwise.
FWIW, the fix for
6681796: hotspot build failure on gcc 4.2.x (ubuntu 8.04) w/ openjdk 6
went into the hotspot runtime repository a few days ago:
http://hg.openjdk.java.net/jdk7/hotspot-rt/hotspot/rev/f139919897d2
It should make its way up to jdk7/jdk7/hotspot fairly soon for jdk7
build 30 or 31. I expect that will allow hotspot to build on current
linux distros, but I haven't tried yet.
-John
