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 Building the "langtools" workspace.

 The "langtools" workspace can be built from the command line with Ant.

 The build file is make/build.xml, in conjunction with make/build.properties.

 Some additional user-specific properties files are also read, to allow

 you to customize selected properties as needed.

 Individual tools within the workspace can also be built and worked on

 with NetBeans, using the projects in the make/netbeans directory.

 The "langtools" workspace can also be built from the command line with

 GNU Make, although the Makefile is simply a wrapper around the Ant

 build file. This is provided for systems (such as the full OpenJDK build)

 that expect to be able to build this workspace with GNU Make.

 System Requirements:

   Ant:      version 1.6.5 or later

   NetBeans: version 6.0 or later (optional)

   JDK:      currently version 1.5.0, although 1.6.0 is recommended

   OS:       any system supporting the above tools

 For more information:

   Ant:      http://ant.apache.org/

   GNU Make: http://www.gnu.org/software/make/

   NetBeans: http://www.netbeans.org/

 Testing the "langtools" workspace.

 The primary set of tests for the compiler is the compiler TCK. This

 tests that the compiler performs according to the specifications in

 JLS and JVMS.

 In addition, there is a substantial collection of regression and unit

 tests for all the tools in the main langtools test/ directory.

 Finally, there is a small set of tests to do basic validation of a build

 of the langtools workspace for use by JDK. These tests check the contents

 of the dist/ directory generated by the build, and verify that the various

 tools can do basic "Hello World"-style processing. These tests should be

 run by jtreg, with the -jdk option set a version of JDK capable of running

 the default output of the javac compiler in this workspace. Currently, 

 this means JDK 6 or better.