Alan,
Really? I'm not sure I agree. If you have a complete and successful
build of JDK 8, then you should pretty much always be able to use that
as a bootstrap JDK.
That being said, I do not disagree with the general advice to use 7u4 as
the bootstrap JDK.
-- Jon
On 03/26/2012 03:37 AM, Alan Bateman wrote:
On 26/03/2012 02:25, Weijun Wang wrote:
:
There is completely no harm in setting JDK 8 as BOOTDIR of JDK 8, but
I would suggest you using 7u4. If there is anything wrong, you can
send us a bug report.
I don't think we can guarantee that jdk8 will always be buildable
using another jdk8 build as the bootstrap JDK. There will be times
were there are API changes in-flight that might mean that langtools
couldn't build (there were many cases in jdk7 where this was the
case). So for jdk8 then I think the best (and only sane) advice is to
use jdk7 as the bootstrap JDK.
Clearly of course a JDK build needs to be able to build itself and a
boot cycle build is great test but that may be more than Martijn wants
now.
-Alan.
