William L. Thomson Jr. wrote: > > If you have any suggestions as to what I should look at to better > > understand the OpenJDK build system I would very much appreciate > > them. .. > Build OpenJDK stand alone. Get familiar with that.
It used to be that one could not build OpenJDK without already having a working JDK. Has that changed with OpenJDK 9 (IIRC it was planned for OpenJDK 7 :) or not yet, and that is a reason for having icedtea in the mix? //Peter