This is for Windows 7, following instructions, mostly vanilla.
I restarted after all the various installations.
I'm "following" the instructions at
http://hg.openjdk.java.net/jdk8/jdk8/raw-file/tip/README-builds.html
The non-vanilla step, inspired by the cautionary warnings about paths with
spac
I've have an up-to-date clone of jdk8/tl + a patch to code in the jdk
repository that makes use of APIs that are new in jdk8. It builds/run
happily on all platforms except Mac where it needs to build JObjC.jar.
Attached is the tail of "make LOG=trace" where it looks like JObjC.jar
involves c