Phil Race wrote:
Well .. we do not distribute binaries of 6-open so that's a bit of a
stumbling block.
Plus 6-open is relatively new in the great scheme of things and is
more of a 6/7 hybrid.
The OpenJDK 6 project has publicly existed for around three and a half
years and IcedTea6 [1] and OpenJDK 6 binaries [2] have been able to pass
the JCK 6 conformance suite for nearly three years.
For my own JDK 7 development, I use OpenJDK 6/IcedTea 6 as the boot JDK.
-Joe
[1] http://blog.softwhere.org/archives/196
[2] http://blogs.oracle.com/darcy/entry/openjdk_6_b13_and_jck
-phil.
On 6/3/2011 9:02 AM, Dr Andrew John Hughes wrote:
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?
