Re: Le roi est mort, vive le roi!

2013-11-24 Thread Staffan Larsen
On 25 nov 2013, at 08:02, Francis ANDRE wrote: > David > > Le 25/11/2013 02:55, David Holmes a écrit : >> On 25/11/2013 1:46 AM, Francis ANDRE wrote: >>> Mike >>> Le 19/11/2013 19:14, Mike Duigou a écrit : Early in jdk8 development it used the same build system as jdk7. A new build s

Re: Le roi est mort, vive le roi!

2013-11-24 Thread Francis ANDRE
David Le 25/11/2013 02:55, David Holmes a écrit : On 25/11/2013 1:46 AM, Francis ANDRE wrote: Mike Le 19/11/2013 19:14, Mike Duigou a écrit : Early in jdk8 development it used the same build system as jdk7. A new build system was developed and eventually replaced the "old" build system. The re

Re: Improving the management and accessibility of the handling of JDK variants

2013-11-24 Thread David Holmes
Hi Dave, This all seems very complex and I'm unclear exactly what it would do or why it would be needed (at this level of flexibility). Our own use of the variant mechanism doesn't require this level of ability. Note your subdirectory of variants needs to allow for some variants being defined

Re: jdk8 extra c/cxx - flags settings

2013-11-24 Thread David Holmes
Hi Matthias, On 22/11/2013 10:55 PM, Baesken, Matthias wrote: I had the need for setting additional C/C++ compilation flags in my OpenJDK8 build. It seems they are used for most jdk C/C++ compilation, but at least the generators from jdk/makefiles/gensrc/GensrcMisc.gmk seem to be an excepti

Re: Le roi est mort, vive le roi!

2013-11-24 Thread David Holmes
On 25/11/2013 1:46 AM, Francis ANDRE wrote: Mike Le 19/11/2013 19:14, Mike Duigou a écrit : Early in jdk8 development it used the same build system as jdk7. A new build system was developed and eventually replaced the "old" build system. The removal in this changeset removed the obsolete legacy

Re: Le roi est mort, vive le roi!

2013-11-24 Thread Francis ANDRE
Mike Le 19/11/2013 19:14, Mike Duigou a écrit : Early in jdk8 development it used the same build system as jdk7. A new build system was developed and eventually replaced the "old" build system. The removal in this changeset removed the obsolete legacy build system. There are no plans to backpor