On Mon, 2015-05-18 at 13:14 -0400, Jung-uk Kim wrote: > On 05/18/2015 02:52, Greg Lewis wrote: > > On Sun, May 17, 2015 at 11:30:26AM -0400, Christos Zoulas wrote: > >> On May 16, 3:06pm, k...@intricatesoftware.com (Kurt Miller) > >> wrote: -- Subject: Dynamically linked libjli for *BSD > >> > >> | Hi Greg, Christos, | | Currently building the jdk with debug > >> symbols fails on OpenBSD and | I suspect at least FreeBSD (since > >> it is disabled in the ports tree | java/openjdk8/Makefile too). > >> This was determined to be caused by | libjli being statically > >> linked on *BSD. [1] | | Statically linking libjli was a > >> work-around introduced in 1.5 or 1.6 | most likely due to the > >> lack of rpath $ORIGIN support in our runtime | linkers. All of > >> the BSD's have rpath $ORIGIN support for several | years now. I > >> propose that we eliminate linking libjli statically and | remove > >> another difference we have in the build when compared to | Linux > >> and Solaris. Dynamically linking libjli fixes the build with | > >> debug symbols. | | Please review/test this diff on FreeBSD and > >> NetBSD and let me know if | you are okay with the change. > >> > >> Works on NetBSD. Just a note, $ORIGIN support is not fully > >> implemented on NetBSD, there is a #ifdef notyet in kern_exec.c... > >> But running java with a full path in $0 works. I'd say apply it > >> if it works for others. > > > > Works for me too on FreeBSD 10.1. > > A PR with the same idea was filed but I rejected it: > > https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=193009
Oh, I wasn't aware of the parallel FreeBSD work on this. > Actually, we had a $ORIGIN problem, which affected some ports, e.g., > java/icedtea-web. I fixed it in r279364 for head and MFC'ed in > r279713, r279714 and r279715 to stable/10, stable/9 and stable/8, > respectively. > > https://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/base/279364 > https://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/base/279713 > https://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/base/279714 > https://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/base/279715 > > Unfortunately, no FreeBSD *release* has this fix. What do you suggest we do with bsd-port/jdk8? Should I make this change OpenBSD specific or are you okay with how it is now? -Kurt
