Hi OpenJDK people ! I tried to build the latest version of OpenJDK on my machine, but ran into a problem during the compilation. The error I got was "gcc: error: unrecognized command line option '-mimpure-text'".
I am not a C/C++ programmer but I found out that this option is for Solaris only. It is used at line 70 in the file ./jdk/make/common/shared/Compiler-gcc.gmk It seems that the problem is related to gcc v4.7, which is the version I used. I found a JIRA on JRuby where a user had the same problem (see "References" below). I removed that option form the file Compiler-gcc.gmk and the build was successful. Was that the right thing to do or should I expect JVM crashes ? I did not try to build the package using older versions of gcc, so I suppose that previous versions did tolerate the presence of this flag even if it is useful only on Solaris. Can someone confirm this ? Sources : - http://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc/Option-Summary.html - http://jira.codehaus.org/browse/JRUBY-6633 Regards. -- Pierre Laporte pie...@pingtimeout.fr http://www.pingtimeout.fr/
