hi Kelly, It's great to see these changes about to go mainstream. Really appreciate everyones effort in making this happen. I have a few questions though (apologies if you've already answered them elsewhere)
1 - What does 'a limited time' mean when referring to being able to use the old make file system? 2 - Do you plan to actively remove obsolete files? 3- If so, on what sort of timescale will these files be removed? Cheers Steve On 5 Jan 2013, at 05:07, Kelly O'Hair <kelly.oh...@oracle.com> wrote: > Excuse the wide mailing, but it was important to try and reach anyone > building jdk8. > > The jdk8/build repositories at http://hg.openjdk.java.net/jdk8/build have > been changed to use the new > build-infra "configure&make" build setup, so it is official, but it still > needs to be integrated into the > main jdk8/jdk8 repositories at http://hg.openjdk.java.net/jdk8/jdk8. This is > expected to happen > in 2 weeks. > > A few bullet points: > > * ANY changes to ANY make/ files from now until we integrate into jdk8/jdk8 > represents a risk, please talk to us first. > * Windows CYGWIN 1.7.16+ will be required, MKS will no longer work. > * This only applies to builds being done from the top repository, i.e. > building the entire JDK > * Should be faster in all cases, however we have seen some cases where the > benefit is slight, depends on the machine&disk used. > * The highly parallel building could swamp some systems, you may need to use > "make JOBS=2" to dial it down > * For a limited time, the old Makefiles can still be used with "make > NEWBUILD=false" > * Also for a limited time, people allergic to using "configure" can try "make > bridgeBuild" > > Please let us know about any issues you encounter, if you have access to JBS > to file the issue please do so, > use component=infrastructure and subcomponent=build, and add the label > "build-infra". > If you don't have access to JBS, provide us the details and we will file the > issue for you. > > -kto >