Re: Incorrect bootstrap jdk in documentation

Hi John,

I'm not sure going forwards if the documentation is supposed to cover all OpenJDK forests (in terms of version numbers, that is, OpenJDK 7 and OpenJDK 8) or whether the documentation will diverge depending on what forest you're in. I've got a few doc patches I'm holding off on until we know which way this is going to go.

I've CC'd in Cecilia and Iris, (Ben and I had a meeting with Cecilia and Tomas about this last week) to see if they can shed some light, as I know they're intending to update the developer docs shortly.

Cheers,

Martijn

On 17 April 2012 15:03, John Oliver <johno@...> wrote:

I was building jdk8 and noticed that your documentation generally states that you need a jdk 1.6.0 as a bootstrap, in the following files:

http://hg.openjdk.java.net/jdk8/build/raw-file/tip/README-builds.html
http://hg.openjdk.java.net/jdk8/build/raw-file/tip/README

When I tried to build using 1.6.0 I received the following:

ERROR:Your  BOOTDIR  environment variable doesnot  point
      to a validJDK  for  bootstrapping this build.
      A  JDK  8   build must be bootstrapped using
      JDK  1.7.0  fcs (or  later).
      Apparently, your bootstrapJDK  is version1.6.0
      Please  update yourALT_BOOTDIR  settingand  start your build again.



When I retried using 1.7.0 as a bootstrap it was fine. I presume those files need to be updated to reflect that you now need at least 1.7.0.

Thanks

John


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