On Sat, Dec 11, 2010 at 12:30 AM, Erik Trimble <erik.trim...@oracle.com> wrote: > On 12/10/2010 1:24 PM, Dr Andrew John Hughes wrote: >>> >>> Regarding the HPI-problem I only have a wild guess. Recently there was >>> a change which removed HPI (see: >>> http://bugs.sun.com/bugdatabase/view_bug.do?bug_id=6348631). So >>> perhaps this interferes with your build JDK which is quite old as far >>> as I saw ("1.6.0-rc-b104"). Perhaps building with a newer Java 6 >>> version or even Java 7 may solve the problem. >>> >> That doesn't seem to have been Per's problem (as he completed a build with >> selinux turned off) but your comment worries me a little. Is there a plan >> to update OpenJDK6 so it will still be able to build 7? Otherwise that's >> going to be a bootstrapping issue. I expect, with 7 stabilising, we'll >> see more people wanting to build it over the coming months and having to >> build an old version of 7 first is going to make things overcomplicated. >> > We build internally with a JDK6 version as the bootstrap version, so I would > expect that any issue that pops up with building 7 using 6 would be fixed > quickly. > > That said, I *think*, but I'm not sure, that we're using 6u14 right now as > the bootstrap JDK6. And, that's almost 2 years old at this point, so can't > see any issue with using any reasonably recent JDK6 or OpenJDK6 build as the > bootstrap. >
Yes, but as far as I saw, Per used "1.6.0-rc-b104" which seems quite outdated... > -Erik > > Erik Trimble > Java System Support > Mailstop: usca22-123 > Phone: x17195 > Santa Clara, CA > Timezone: US/Pacific (GMT-0800) > >
