On 08:57 Fri 03 Jun , Kelly O'Hair wrote: > > The documented Boot JDK to be used when building JDK7 repositories is JDK6 > Update 18, as listed here > http://hg.openjdk.java.net/jdk7/build/raw-file/tip/README-builds.html#MBE > > However, as many people know, JDK releases newer than JDK6u18 should always > work, and some older ones can work too. > Variations in build dependencies can sometimes create unwanted differences > between builds by different developers > or build systems, so our tendency is to minimize these variations, but by > doing so, we run a risk that we don't > see what does not work. > > If you have any incidents where particular JDKs can or cannot be used as the > Boot JDK for JDK7, please let us know. > > -kto >
And OpenJDK6 works. Is there any reason this is not recommended rather than a proprietary product? -- Andrew :) Free Java Software Engineer Red Hat, Inc. (http://www.redhat.com) Support Free Java! Contribute to GNU Classpath and IcedTea http://www.gnu.org/software/classpath http://icedtea.classpath.org PGP Key: F5862A37 (https://keys.indymedia.org/) Fingerprint = EA30 D855 D50F 90CD F54D 0698 0713 C3ED F586 2A37
