Every now and then, it can come in very handy to build OpenJDK from source yourself, for instance if you want to explore a feature which is under development on a branch for which no builds are published. For some reason I always thought that building OpenJDK is a very complex processing, requiring the installation of arcane tool chains etc. But as it turns out, this actually not true: the project does a great job of documenting what’s needed and only a few steps are necessary to build your...
