On 01/14/2014 08:02 AM, Francis ANDRE wrote:
New contributions should go to the JDK 9 and JDK 8u Projects first. With the JDK 8u Project starting up, it's a good time to get involved, and start working on testing, adopting and migrating to JDK 8u releases in downstream projects currently using this Project's source code.
Why new contributions should go to jdk9 and jdk8 first?? I am interested in building the hotspot of the jdk7u, not in jdk8 or jdk9 -- building hotspot of jdk8 on WXP does not work -- ... So, it is a triple work that OpenJDK is asking for having a fix proposal integrated in the jdk7u. This rule is just a stopper for supplying a contributive work...
In general, this is unavoidable because it ensures that there are no regressions when upgrading to later JDK versions.
It seems that building on Windows XP is still supported in JDK 8, so build fixes have to applied there as well. So the first step really is to figure out why you can't build this version, sorry.
-- Florian Weimer / Red Hat Product Security Team
