Just built #OpenJDK from source for the very first time myself. A surprisingly smooth experience: just a few packages to install and then run `bash configure` + `make images`. With five min and a bit, also not taking very long. Noice 🤓!

@gunnarmorling I remember times when building OpenJDK - and its closed-source predecessor - was an absolute pain. The build folks at Oracle put a lot of love into this.

@tstuefe @gunnarmorling With help from the OpenJDK community. The whole thing was rewritten from scratch for OpenJDK 8. The original one had to be passed everything via make variables. It's one of the reasons we maintained our IcedTea autoconf wrapper around it for so long.