Hi Kim,
On 25/01/2017 7:25 AM, Kim Barrett wrote:
On Jan 23, 2017, at 5:34 AM, Mike Burton <[email protected]> wrote:
Hello,
I ran an OpenJDK Hack Day session on Saturday, at which some people got stuck
on lost a fair bit of time, failing to build JDK9. Then we found that updating
gcc from 4.6 to 4.8 fixed it.
Could the `configure` script be updated (by running get-source.sh) so as to
check for minimum required gcc version?
Best Regards
Mike Burton
I don’t think there is supposed to be a requirement for gcc > 4.6 in JDK 9.
I’m pretty
sure there are folks still building with older versions. It would be helpful
to know the
details of the platform and the error messages that led to the conclusion that
something
more recent was required.
We may have "accidentally" moved on to gcc 4.8+. Even the ppc builds,
which are still listed as using 4.1.2 on the wiki:
https://wiki.openjdk.java.net/display/Build/Supported+Build+Platforms
are now using 4.8.5:
http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~simonis/ppc-aix-port/ (look at a build log)
So some breakage with earlier versions may have crept in. I thought I
recalled a few issues but can't see any bug reports.
David
