Re: Official JDK used to build JDK9

2016-09-26 Thread Andrew Haley
On 26/09/16 14:00, Volker Simonis wrote: > Shouldn't any Java 8 compatible JDK be enough to bootstrap the Java 9 > build? If not I would consider this a bug. Yes. But I want to know what sort of bug I actually have. Andrew.

Re: Official JDK used to build JDK9

2016-09-26 Thread Volker Simonis
Shouldn't any Java 8 compatible JDK be enough to bootstrap the Java 9 build? If not I would consider this a bug. We are using various (HotSpot based) versions of Java 8 to bootstrap JDK 9 and haven't seen any problems until now. IBM J9 was known for causing some problems in the past because of

Re: Official JDK used to build JDK9

2016-09-26 Thread Andrew Haley
On 26/09/16 11:41, Wang Weijun wrote: > My recent JPRT (an Oracle internal build tool) job shows > > checking Boot JDK version... java version "1.8.0" Java(TM) SE Runtime > Environment (build 1.8.0-b132) Java HotSpot(TM) 64-Bit Server VM (build > 25.0-b70, mixed mode) > > This is not OpenJDK.

Re: Official JDK used to build JDK9

2016-09-26 Thread Wang Weijun
My recent JPRT (an Oracle internal build tool) job shows checking Boot JDK version... java version "1.8.0" Java(TM) SE Runtime Environment (build 1.8.0-b132) Java HotSpot(TM) 64-Bit Server VM (build 25.0-b70, mixed mode) This is not OpenJDK. --Max > On Sep 26, 2016, at 6:22 PM, Andrew Haley

Official JDK used to build JDK9

2016-09-26 Thread Andrew Haley
What version of OpenJDK should we use to bootstrap test builds? Thanks, Andrew.