Thank you Erik! I expected that. I guess I better rebuild it for every bisect I do.
Cheers, Thomas On Fri, Mar 31, 2023 at 3:21 PM <erik.joels...@oracle.com> wrote: > Hello Thomas, > > On 3/31/23 05:43, Thomas Stüfe wrote: > > Hi, > > > > quick question, I'm doing arm crossbuilds, trying to find an errornous > > patch with bisecting. With crossbuild, I am specifying build-jdk. > > > > How current does the build-jdk have to be? If the build jdk does not > > fit the source I am trying to build, would that be immediately obvious > > or would I get strange errors? I am gauging whether to rebuild the > > build jdk for every bisect point. > > > As far as I know, we expect the BUILD_JDK to be an exact match, but in > practice it probably works with something a bit older most of the time. > It depends on what differences there are between the current source and > the BUILD_JDK. I haven't tried using an out of date BUILD_JDK but I > would imagine the errors to be strange and unpredictable. In your case, > if you want to avoid strange surprises, letting the BUILD_JDK be rebuilt > automatically is preferred, but if the bisect range is small, maybe it's > worth chancing it to save build time. > > /Erik > > >
