You are right Kelly, the old build system did use the idlj from the boot jdk.
The new build, does build a bootstrap idlj, as can be seen here: he http://hg.openjdk.java.net/jdk9/jdk9/corba/file/14e7fbdd1dcb/make/GensrcCorba.gmk And uses this bootstrap idlj to compile the idl files, so at least that odd boot jdk dependency is removed. //Fredrik 2014-04-04 17:57 GMT+02:00 Kelly O'Hair <kellyoh...@gmail.com>: > As I recall, corba builds do some code generation with idlj, which is in > corba I think, so a boot jdk version of idlj > would need to be built and run with the boot jdk, then you could build > everything with the new jdk. > Or so I recall.. > > -kto > > On Apr 3, 2014, at 11:54 PM, Fredrik Öhrström wrote: > > >> > >> On Thu, Apr 3, 2014 at 8:53 AM, Joe Darcy <joe.da...@oracle.com> wrote: > >>> > >>>> A broader question this issue raises is why are components like corba > >>>> built using the book JDK rather than the JDK they are a part of? > >>> > >>> As Alan said, for historical reasons only. If you wanted to actually > > compile corba/jaxp/jaxws using the new jdk, it would be trivial to change > > the build system to do so, since we already do so with nashorn. > > > > //Fredrik > >
