> The contents of the build README has been poorly kept up to date in places. > With the move to Github, the need to have markdown syntax that looks good on > Github has become apparent. The entire document has been in need for a while > of a comprehensive oversight to be made more consistent in language and > formatting. > > Here is a summary of the most important changes: > > * The entire section on cross-compiling have been restructured to be more > logical, and some parts have been rewritten, so it reads more coherent. > * A section on "make doctor" has been added > * The fixpath.sh script has been explained more in detail (and references to > the old fixpath binary removed) > * Information about MSYS2 and WSL has been updated > * References to how things were done in the past, like the hg forest have > been removed > * Version numbers have been updated where needed > * Some specific paragraphs about e.g. boot JDK detection have been clarified > * Example output have been updated > * Remaining references to `run-test` have been updated to just `test` > * Internal links have been fixed in a few places > * A few remaining places that confuses "OpenJDK" with the "JDK" have been > fixed > * Markdown formatting has been improved in some places > * The entire file has gotten more normalized markdown formatting (fix bullet > list indentation, add empty lines surrounding the code block markers, etc) > > Note that this PR will can possibly create a merge conflict with 8317357 and > 8264425; my intention is to integrate these two first and then resolve any > conflicts in this PR.
Magnus Ihse Bursie has updated the pull request with a new target base due to a merge or a rebase. The pull request now contains two commits: - Merge branch 'master' into readme-refresh - 8320258: Refresh building.md ------------- Changes: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/pull/16696/files Webrev: https://webrevs.openjdk.org/?repo=jdk&pr=16696&range=01 Stats: 1382 lines in 2 files changed: 499 ins; 221 del; 662 mod Patch: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/pull/16696.diff Fetch: git fetch https://git.openjdk.org/jdk.git pull/16696/head:pull/16696 PR: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/pull/16696
