Hi Magnus,

> A recurring theme in the build-dev list is confusion on which platforms it is 
> possible to build OpenJDK. Unfortunately, information about this has not been 
> easy to gather. It has also not been clear what kind of build issues the 
> Build Team will respond to and with what kind of urgency.
> 
> To help address this, I’ve created a publicly available wiki page: 
> https://wiki.openjdk.java.net/display/Build/Supported+build+platforms

Nice work, that belongs on my shortcut list from now on.

> Support for building on different platforms come in two varieties: official 
> support and community support.
> 
> Oracle defines a number of official build platforms, with carefully specified 
> versions of operating systems, compilers and other build tools. If you report 
> a failure to build on any of these platforms, the report will be processed 
> with high priority from the build team in Oracle. Under normal circumstances, 
> a build on any of these platforms will always succeed.
> 
> In addition to the official build platforms, OpenJDK can normally be built on 
> many more platforms. For these platforms, there is no guarantee that the 
> build will succeed. The Oracle build team can help to solve some problems 
> encountered, but only on a best-effort basis. In addition to the Oracle build 
> team, the OpenJDK community at large is welcome to help with making OpenJDK 
> compile on these platforms.
> 
> The official and community supported build platforms are listed on the wiki 
> page. Note that build support is different for different versions of the JDK. 
> We welcome updates from the community to the list of community supported 
> platforms. If you have succeeded (or not!) in building OpenJDK on a platform 
> that is substantially different from the ones already listed, please document 
> your experience in the list.

I’m able to fluently build JDK 8u and JDK 9 on Fedora 21 x64

> The list of community supported platforms on the wiki is currently much 
> shorter than the number of platforms I expect OpenJDK to build on. Once 
> again, please help us by filling in the wiki!
> 
> /Magnus

I would like to help improve also documentations for the community…

Patrick

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