On 26/03/2012 02:25, Weijun Wang wrote:
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There is completely no harm in setting JDK 8 as BOOTDIR of JDK 8, but
I would suggest you using 7u4. If there is anything wrong, you can
send us a bug report.
I don't think we can guarantee that jdk8 will always be buildable using
another jdk8 build as the bootstrap JDK. There will be times were there
are API changes in-flight that might mean that langtools couldn't build
(there were many cases in jdk7 where this was the case). So for jdk8
then I think the best (and only sane) advice is to use jdk7 as the
bootstrap JDK.
Clearly of course a JDK build needs to be able to build itself and a
boot cycle build is great test but that may be more than Martijn wants now.
-Alan.
