> On 25 March 2012 13:11, Alan Bateman <alan.bate...@oracle.com> wrote: >> On 25/03/2012 13:01, Martijn Verburg wrote: >>> >>> Hi Sean/Alan/Max, >>> >>> Sean - Your solution did the trick, and I'll probably use this for now as >>> it means a smaller VM for the members to work with >>> Alan/Max - I did get the full build going, but then my VM ran out of >>> space. >> >> I see Seán suggestion is to use a 7u4 build as the import JDK but since you >> are building jdk8 (jdk8/tl/jdk is jdk8) then your import JDK has to be jdk8 >> too, otherwise you'll end up combining 7u4 and 8 bits in the build so there >> is no guarantee that you'll get consistent bits. In general partial builds >> are fragile and one needs to take great care to ensure that the import JDK >> matches exact the repositories that you are building. > > Hi Alan, > > Understood, I'll try with a purely 8 approach. > > Cheers, > Martijn
Hi Alan/all, Apologies for top posting before, I'll try to follow along properly now. I've started from scratch and wanted to make sure I have my environment variables correct for building the jdk8/tl project. I've currently got my two JDK related environment variables set up as follows: export ALT_BOOTDIR=/home/openjdk/opt/jdk1.7.0_04 export ALT_JDK_IMPORT_PATH=/home/openjdk/opt/jdk1.7.0_04 Alan, I think you were suggesting that these ALT_BOOTDIR & ALT_JDK_IMPORT_PATH should to point to a jdk8 install of some sort. So my question in return is: Q: Should I install an openjdk-8 binary to reference, or should I reference back to something that I've built from source? The 2nd option would be the most up to date I guess but seems a bit chicken and egg.. As an aside I'm writing this all up to add to Cecelia's documentation efforts. The README-build.html is really helpful, but is a little outdated in that it seems to be talking about building openjdk6 Cheers, Martijn
