It's has been recognized that the current recommended Linux build OS is entirely antiquated.

The current plan is to recommend Fedora 9 as the jdk7 basic Linux build platform, however, the OpenJDK sources themselves can and do build on a wide variety of Linux systems. So to some degree this recommendation of Fedora 9 doesn't mean much to the open source developers, on the otherhand the recommended Linux will likely be tested more completely by the Sun quality teams.

List of things to do:
  1. Update Build readme with recommendation
  2. Deal with gcc4 change in README
  3. Fix the Makefile sanity checks to allow for any Linux, any gcc, and any LANG setting?
Change the sanity checks in jdk7 to be for a newer Linux system, current choice for the Java Release Engineering team is Fedora 9, so checks should warn when the system does not match that platform.

 2.6 kernel
 /etc/fedora-release should exist and contain "Fedora release 9"
 gcc and g++ should be 4.3
 LANG can be en_US.utf8
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Include the change to the readmes for Windows XP and Visual Studio 2008 and no more MKS usage.