Chapter 4. Building OpenJDK 8
In this chapter, we will cover:
- Working with GNU Autoconf
- Building OpenJDK 8 on Ubuntu Linux 12.04 LTS
- Using ccache to speed up the OpenJDK 8 build process
- Building OpenJDK 8 on Mac OS X
- Building OpenJDK 8 on Windows 7 SP1
Introduction
The Java 8 specification brings a lot of innovations to the Java platform. Besides new language features such as functional interfaces and Lamda expression support, and library features such as streams and a new date/time API, OpenJDK 8 has a new build system. As this chapter is about building OpenJDK, we will explore the last innovation in depth.
For a long time, the Sun Java and OpenJDK build system grew around the release process. Requirements from the release engineers always came before ...
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