On 06/03/2011 09:02 AM, Dr Andrew John Hughes wrote:
On 08:57 Fri 03 Jun , Kelly O'Hair wrote:
The documented Boot JDK to be used when building JDK7 repositories is JDK6
Update 18, as listed here
http://hg.openjdk.java.net/jdk7/build/raw-file/tip/README-builds.html#MBE
However, as many people know, JDK releases newer than JDK6u18 should always
work, and some older ones can work too.
Variations in build dependencies can sometimes create unwanted differences
between builds by different developers
or build systems, so our tendency is to minimize these variations, but by doing
so, we run a risk that we don't
see what does not work.
If you have any incidents where particular JDKs can or cannot be used as the
Boot JDK for JDK7, please let us know.
-kto
And OpenJDK6 works. Is there any reason this is not recommended rather than a
proprietary product?
Perhaps it should be recommended as an equivalent alternative,
especially for those developers that primarily use (just) OpenJDK for
development.
-- Jon
