New official README-builds.html

Please do not 'reply all', send concerns or issues to just the build-dev or build-infra-dev aliases. The very latest README-builds.html file is: http://hg.openjdk.java.net/jdk8/jdk8/raw-file/tip/README-builds.html This documents the new build makefiles only. As with all documents of this typ

Re: Do not let internal JDK zlib symbols leak out of fastdebug libzip.so

On Mar 1, 2013, at 6:44 AM, Alan Bateman wrote: >> It's hard to find something more standard than stddef.h. >> > It's hard to find something as non-standard as Windows. My point was we just > need to double check that this builds okay on Windows, which is does. The only issue I have seen with

build failure in nashorn with sjavac enabled

Hi, I was doing experiments with the recently added sjavac flag to enable smart recompilation of JDK classes. I got a failure in Nashorn (I'm building on linux x64, Ubuntu 11.10): ## Starting nashorn Compiling BUILD_NASHORN Compiling 106 files in 7 packages (jdk.internal.dynalink to jdk.nasho

Re: Do not let internal JDK zlib symbols leak out of fastdebug libzip.so

On 28/02/2013 16:11, Martin Buchholz wrote: On Thu, Feb 28, 2013 at 6:03 AM, Alan Bateman > wrote: The update to make/java/zip/Makefile looks good to me, we should have done it a long time ago. I assume you are pushing ahead on this because you want

Re: demos and images

On 27/02/2013 19:44, Mike Duigou wrote: The demos target is being built as a pre-requisite to building images. This was probably done for compatibility the the old build system. How soon before we can we break this bogusness? Mike The demos have traditionally been included in the SDK image (de