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authorohair <none@none>2009-10-28 13:44:30 -0700
committerohair <none@none>2009-10-28 13:44:30 -0700
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6865492: /java/devtools/win32/bin/gnumake.exe doesn't work with cygwin
Reviewed-by: robilad
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<strong>Windows:</strong>
- Make sure you start your build inside a bash/sh/ksh shell.
+ Make sure you start your build inside a bash/sh/ksh shell
+ and are using a <tt>make.exe</tt> utility built for that
+ environment (a cygwin <tt>make.exe</tt> is not the same
+ as a <tt>make.exe</tt> built for something like
+ <a href="http://www.mkssoftware.com/">MKS</a>).
<br>
<b>WARNING:</b> Watch out for make version 3.81, it may
not work due to a lack of support for MS-DOS drive letter paths
@@ -826,7 +830,8 @@
All OpenJDK builds require access to the previously released
JDK 6, this is often called a bootstrap JDK.
The JDK 6 binaries can be downloaded from Sun's
- <a href="http://java.sun.com/javase/1.6.0/download.html" target="_blank">JDK 6 download site</a>.
+ <a href="http://java.sun.com/javase/downloads/index.jsp"
+ target="_blank">JDK 6 download site</a>.
For build performance reasons
is very important that this bootstrap JDK be made available on the
local disk of the machine doing the build.