On Wed, Jan 25, 2017 at 8:13 PM, Kim Barrett <[email protected]> wrote: >> On Jan 24, 2017, at 7:34 PM, David Holmes <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> 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. > > The PPC build from SAP was the one I was thinking of as still being around. > And it does seem they’ve moved on too, which is useful to know. > So yes, entirely possible something crept in if there isn’t frequent testing. >
You're right. I've updated https://wiki.openjdk.java.net/display/Build/Supported+Build+Platforms to match our current settings. Thanks, Volker
