On Apr 12, 2012, at 2:47 AM, Magnus Ihse Bursie wrote: > The build-infra project [1] has been working for a while with creating a new > build system. The goals of the project include, but are not limited to, > improved build performance and improved ease of use. > > The first part of this project has now been pushed to the jdk8 master forest. > This means that the new build system is available for you to try out! The old > build system is still there, and if you want to continue to use it, you will > notice no difference (for now...). > > But if you are interested in trying the new build system, we welcome you to > experiment with it! The basic operation is: > cd common/makefiles > ../autoconf/configure
FYI... I had to adjust this to: chmod a+x ../bin/* bash ../autoconf/configure The OpenJDK repositories do not allow any files with execute permissions. -kto > make > > More information is available in the new build README [2]. If you want to try > the new build system, please read it first. > > Please note that the new build system is not yet complete. We do not yet have > full platform support, nor are all parts of the old build converted (but then > we fall back on the old build system), and there are likely to be bugs. Most > of all, we need to have exposure on a wide range of different build systems, > since the reality is always so much messier than you'd want to believe. :-) > Please help us to resolve such issues early by trying the new build system! > > Any questions or discussions on the new build system should be sent to > build-dev@openjdk.java.net. > > /Magnus > > [1] http://openjdk.java.net/projects/build-infra/index.html > [2] http://openjdk.java.net/projects/build-infra/guide.html >
