Re: Boot JDK used with jdk7 builds

2011-06-03 Thread Dalibor Topic
On 6/3/11 6:02 PM, Dr Andrew John Hughes wrote: > On 08:57 Fri 03 Jun , Kelly O'Hair wrote: >> If you have any incidents where particular JDKs can or cannot be used as the >> Boot JDK for JDK7, please let us know.> > And OpenJDK6 works. If OpenJDK 6 works as a bootstrap option on Fedora 9,

Re: Boot JDK used with jdk7 builds

2011-06-03 Thread Kelly O'Hair
On Jun 3, 2011, at 9:02 AM, Dr Andrew John Hughes wrote: > On 08:57 Fri 03 Jun , Kelly O'Hair wrote: >> >> The documented Boot JDK to be used when building JDK7 repositories is JDK6 >> Update 18, as listed here >> http://hg.openjdk.java.net/jdk7/build/raw-file/tip/README-builds.html#MBE >>

Re: Boot JDK used with jdk7 builds

2011-06-03 Thread Jonathan Gibbons
On 06/03/2011 09:02 AM, Dr Andrew John Hughes wrote: On 08:57 Fri 03 Jun , Kelly O'Hair wrote: The documented Boot JDK to be used when building JDK7 repositories is JDK6 Update 18, as listed here http://hg.openjdk.java.net/jdk7/build/raw-file/tip/README-builds.html#MBE However, as many

Re: Boot JDK used with jdk7 builds

2011-06-03 Thread Joe Darcy
Phil Race wrote: Well .. we do not distribute binaries of 6-open so that's a bit of a stumbling block. Plus 6-open is relatively new in the great scheme of things and is more of a 6/7 hybrid. The OpenJDK 6 project has publicly existed for around three and a half years and IcedTea6 [1] and Ope

Re: Boot JDK used with jdk7 builds

2011-06-03 Thread Phil Race
Well .. we do not distribute binaries of 6-open so that's a bit of a stumbling block. Plus 6-open is relatively new in the great scheme of things and is more of a 6/7 hybrid. -phil. On 6/3/2011 9:02 AM, Dr Andrew John Hughes wrote: On 08:57 Fri 03 Jun , Kelly O'Hair wrote: The documented

Re: Boot JDK used with jdk7 builds

2011-06-03 Thread Dr Andrew John Hughes
On 08:57 Fri 03 Jun , Kelly O'Hair wrote: > > The documented Boot JDK to be used when building JDK7 repositories is JDK6 > Update 18, as listed here > http://hg.openjdk.java.net/jdk7/build/raw-file/tip/README-builds.html#MBE > > However, as many people know, JDK releases newer than JDK6u18

Boot JDK used with jdk7 builds

2011-06-03 Thread Kelly O'Hair
The documented Boot JDK to be used when building JDK7 repositories is JDK6 Update 18, as listed here http://hg.openjdk.java.net/jdk7/build/raw-file/tip/README-builds.html#MBE However, as many people know, JDK releases newer than JDK6u18 should always work, and some older ones can work too. Va