Likewise - is it possible to get edit access? Cheers, Martijn
On 21 November 2014 at 20:46, Patrick Reinhart <patr...@reini.net> wrote: > 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
