On 7 June 2010 19:30, Jonathan Gibbons <jonathan.gibb...@oracle.com> wrote: > On 06/07/2010 11:16 AM, cowwoc wrote: >> >> Hi, >> >> Has anyone tried building OpenJDK using a JDK7 as the boot JDK? Is there >> any >> reason to expect this will fail? Ideally I don't want two different JDK >> versions installed on my machine ;) >> >> Gili >> > > Assuming you're talking about building JDK7, this should work. In fact, > one of the standard tests for a JDK build is to see if it can build itself. > This is done by setting SKIP_BOOT_CYCLE=false on the make command line. If > you set this parameter, then JDK will be built first with the boot JDK you > provide, then again with the JDK that has just been built. > > -- Jon >
I do it on a daily basis with IcedTea7. Works fine. -- Andrew :-) Free Java Software Engineer Red Hat, Inc. (http://www.redhat.com) Support Free Java! Contribute to GNU Classpath and the OpenJDK http://www.gnu.org/software/classpath http://openjdk.java.net PGP Key: 94EFD9D8 (http://subkeys.pgp.net) Fingerprint: F8EF F1EA 401E 2E60 15FA 7927 142C 2591 94EF D9D8
