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
