On 12/10/2010 1:24 PM, Dr Andrew John Hughes wrote:
Regarding the HPI-problem I only have a wild guess. Recently there was
a change which removed HPI (see:
http://bugs.sun.com/bugdatabase/view_bug.do?bug_id=6348631). So
perhaps this interferes with your build JDK which is quite old as far
as I saw ("1.6.0-rc-b104"). Perhaps building with a newer Java 6
version or even Java 7 may solve the problem.
That doesn't seem to have been Per's problem (as he completed a build with
selinux turned off) but your comment worries me a little. Is there a plan
to update OpenJDK6 so it will still be able to build 7? Otherwise that's
going to be a bootstrapping issue. I expect, with 7 stabilising, we'll
see more people wanting to build it over the coming months and having to
build an old version of 7 first is going to make things overcomplicated.
We build internally with a JDK6 version as the bootstrap version, so I
would expect that any issue that pops up with building 7 using 6 would
be fixed quickly.
That said, I *think*, but I'm not sure, that we're using 6u14 right now
as the bootstrap JDK6. And, that's almost 2 years old at this point, so
can't see any issue with using any reasonably recent JDK6 or OpenJDK6
build as the bootstrap.
-Erik
Erik Trimble
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