diff -r 1809fb8266cb -r 5afeaf4283ed README-builds.html --- a/README-builds.html Wed Apr 23 14:23:50 2014 +0200 +++ b/README-builds.html Thu Apr 24 10:21:58 2014 +0200 @@ -145,7 +145,7 @@ root repository:
- hg clone http://hg.openjdk.java.net/jdk8/jdk8 + hg clone http://hg.openjdk.java.net/jdk9/jdk9 YourOpenJDK
cd YourOpenJDK @@ -373,18 +373,17 @@ particular update level.
 
- Building JDK 8 requires use of a version - of JDK 7 that is at Update 7 or newer. JDK 8 - developers should not use JDK 8 as the boot - JDK, to ensure that JDK 8 dependencies are + Building JDK 9 requires JDK 8. JDK 9 + developers should not use JDK 9 as the boot + JDK, to ensure that JDK 9 dependencies are not introduced into the parts of the system - that are built with JDK 7. + that are built with JDK 8.
 
- The JDK 7 binaries can be downloaded from Oracle's + The JDK 8 binaries can be downloaded from Oracle's JDK 7 download site. - For build performance reasons + target="_blank">JDK 8 download site. + For build performance reasons it is very important that this bootstrap JDK be made available on the local disk of the machine doing the build. You should add its bin directory @@ -1454,9 +1453,7 @@

One of the top goals of the new build system is to improve the build performance and decrease the time needed to build. This will soon also apply to the java compilation when the Smart Javac wrapper - is making its way into jdk8. It can be tried in the build-infra - repository already. You are likely to find that the new build system - is faster than the old one even without this feature.

+ is fully supported.

At the end of a successful execution of configure, you will get a performance summary,