Hello,
I tried building with 4.0 in cygwin and it seemed to work fine. I doubt
there will be issues, but we will not move the official build there for
a long while yet. Until proven otherwise, I see no reason to hinder
developers from building with 4.x. Older versions of make are much worse
since we rely on features in make 3.81.
/Erik
On 2013-10-21 19:09, Bradford Wetmore wrote:
Thanks Tim,
This bug was fixed today by to allow for 4.x. Does this mean that 4.x
is supported, or just that sanity won't kill the build and you're on
the bleeding edge that hopefully "should" work?
http://hg.openjdk.java.net/jdk8/build/rev/1a853fac18ff
Brad
On 10/20/2013 10:58 AM, Tim Bell wrote:
On 10/20/13 09:49 AM, Bradford Wetmore wrote:
Have not researched how 4.01 is different from 3.82.90-1. Has anyone
tried it?
As an FYI, 3.81 is no longer available from the normal Cygwin "setup"
distribution. The "previous" version is now 3.82.90-1.
See bug # JDK-8026528 [build] configure does not recognize newer make in
cygwin
http://bugs.sun.com/view_bug.do?bug_id=8026528
The warning bears repeating: there is no 'undo' in Cygwin, so be
careful about updating to some bleeding edge version of the tools that
won't work with the build. This is why we probably will not update our
internal build systems again until JDK 9.
Tim
