Re: Confirming JDK 8 GA version

2014-12-04 Thread Medi Montaseri
son [erik.joels...@oracle.com<mailto:erik.joels...@oracle.com>] Sent: Wednesday, December 03, 2014 12:33 AM To: David Holmes; Medi Montaseri; build-dev@openjdk.java.net<mailto:build-dev@openjdk.java.net> Subject: Re: Confirming JDK 8 GA version The source/makefiles are not aware of the build

Re: Confirming JDK 8 GA version

2014-12-04 Thread David Holmes
e binary (java or javac) to show that it is the latest. Thanks Medi From: Erik Joelsson [erik.joels...@oracle.com] Sent: Wednesday, December 03, 2014 12:33 AM To: David Holmes; Medi Montaseri; build-dev@openjdk.java.net Subject: Re: Confirming JDK 8 GA version The source/makefil

Re: Confirming JDK 8 GA version

2014-12-04 Thread Erik Joelsson
[erik.joels...@oracle.com] Sent: Wednesday, December 03, 2014 12:33 AM To: David Holmes; Medi Montaseri; build-dev@openjdk.java.net Subject: Re: Confirming JDK 8 GA version The source/makefiles are not aware of the build number. It's assigned from an external source at the time of building a

RE: Confirming JDK 8 GA version

2014-12-03 Thread Medi Montaseri
racle.com] Sent: Wednesday, December 03, 2014 12:33 AM To: David Holmes; Medi Montaseri; build-dev@openjdk.java.net Subject: Re: Confirming JDK 8 GA version The source/makefiles are not aware of the build number. It's assigned from an external source at the time of building a promoted build. If yo

Re: Confirming JDK 8 GA version

2014-12-03 Thread Erik Joelsson
The source/makefiles are not aware of the build number. It's assigned from an external source at the time of building a promoted build. If you want your version number to better match 8 GA, you will have to play around with the configure arguments --with-build-number and possibly --with-milesto

Re: Confirming JDK 8 GA version

2014-12-02 Thread David Holmes
On 3/12/2014 12:25 PM, Medi Montaseri wrote: Hi, Just wanted to confirm some issues: I am interested in building the latest (tip) of jdk8 GA release. 1- jdk8 GA is different from jdk8u (u is for updates), I should get the src from http://hg.openjdk.java.net/jdk8/jdk8 2- The latest tagged versi