Re: jdk8 Build changes

hi Kelly, It's great to see these changes about to go mainstream. Really appreciate everyones effort in making this happen. I have a few questions though (apologies if you've already answered them elsewhere) 1 - What does 'a limited time' mean when referring to being able to use the old m

javaw launcher

hi all, this may seem a strange request but here goes.. IBM ships its runtimes with a javaw launcher on all platforms - not just Windows. We do this for consistency reasons so that applications using Java know that they can just call "javaw" on any platform and not have to worry ab

Re: jdk/src/solaris - time to re-visit it?

On Tue, 2011-11-29 at 15:08 -0800, Phil Race wrote: > Flat vs Hierarchical is OK. its needless proliferation I was objecting to. > > If "ifdef capability" can be used I have no issues with that either. > > I suggested maintaining the name as src/solaris partly because I don't > believe in churn

Re: jdk/src/solaris - time to re-visit it?

On Mon, 2011-11-28 at 17:20 +0100, Fredrik Öhrström wrote: > 2011-11-28 16:46, Ulf Zibis skrev: > > I guess you meant: > > --shared > > --posix > >|--SYSV > >||--solaris > >||--aix > >| > >|--gnu > >||--linux > >|| > >|

Re: Project Proposal: Build Infrastructure Changes

On 03/05/11 17:05, Kelly O'Hair wrote: On May 3, 2011, at 2:18 AM, Steve Poole wrote: On 30/04/11 00:05, Kelly O'Hair wrote: On Apr 29, 2011, at 1:31 PM, Steve Poole wrote: On 26/04/11 15:54, Kelly O'Hair wrote: On Apr 26, 2011, at 12:59 AM, Steve Poole wrote: * A

Re: Project Proposal: Build Infrastructure Changes

On 30/04/11 00:05, Kelly O'Hair wrote: On Apr 29, 2011, at 1:31 PM, Steve Poole wrote: On 26/04/11 15:54, Kelly O'Hair wrote: On Apr 26, 2011, at 12:59 AM, Steve Poole wrote: * Allow for use of more portable build tools (compilers etc.) where possible Can I add s

Re: Project Proposal: Build Infrastructure Changes

On 26/04/11 15:54, Kelly O'Hair wrote: On Apr 26, 2011, at 12:59 AM, Steve Poole wrote: * Allow for use of more portable build tools (compilers etc.) where possible Can I add support for alternative JVM's ? Seems a bit out of scope to me. Sorry, it was a bit of a fl

Re: Fwd: Project Proposal: Build Infrastructure Changes

On 24/04/11 18:12, Kelly O'Hair wrote: FYI... I sent this, but I'm not seeing any record it was received... :^( -kto Begin forwarded message: *From: *Kelly O'Hair > *Date: *April 22, 2011 16:49:29 PM PDT *To: *annou...@openjdk.java.net

Re: Project Proposal: Build Infrastructure Changes

On 26/04/11 00:36, Kelly O'Hair wrote: On Apr 24, 2011, at 12:17 PM, Lussier, Denis wrote: My two cents are: I think this is great. To say the least, it has historically been challenging and/or non-standard to build OpenJDK (most especially on Windoze). Kelly, a big +1 for this proposal (is

Re: JDK8 Preliminary Repository Layout

On 15/03/11 10:44, David Holmes wrote: Steve, Steve Poole said the following on 03/15/11 19:27: I don't know how much cross-repo changes go on. It would seem that if that is minimal then the next logical step would be to remove the source for the repos you're not working on and

Re: JDK8 Preliminary Repository Layout

On 11/03/11 18:07, Kelly O'Hair wrote: On Mar 11, 2011, at 2:11 AM, Steve Poole wrote: Kelly - can you explain for us newbies why you have separate repositories? I'm sure I can list any number of reasons but it would be good to get your view. It may sound like a dumb question b

Re: How to check out the openjdk source code from the mercurial repositories

On 11/03/11 17:06, Kelly O'Hair wrote: On Mar 11, 2011, at 2:04 AM, Steve Poole wrote: On 11/03/11 01:14, David Holmes wrote: Dr Andrew John Hughes said the following on 03/11/11 10:57: On 06:40 Fri 11 Mar , David Holmes wrote: Stepping up a level, an initial download of openjdk

Re: JDK8 Preliminary Repository Layout

On 09/03/11 02:32, Kelly O'Hair wrote: First, if we talk about the mercurial forests, it has nothing to do with the Mercurial Forest Extension. What we really have is a set of nested repositories, sometimes called our "forest" of repositories. This email is just about the actual layout of th

Re: How to check out the openjdk source code from the mercurial repositories

On 11/03/11 01:14, David Holmes wrote: Dr Andrew John Hughes said the following on 03/11/11 10:57: On 06:40 Fri 11 Mar , David Holmes wrote: Stepping up a level, an initial download of openjdk need not involve using mercurial at all. You can simply download a stable snapshot as a tar file;

Re: Need reviewer: Add vsvars.sh script to jdk7 repo

Kelly, I'm struggling with getting a windows build env setup on a 64 bit Windows 2003 + VS 2010. I replaced some of my hackerly with your script and got further than I was before. So it gets my vote. Now I've reached the point where my build fails with "unresolved external symbol __imp_FT_Li