That's a strange error. Which version of the makefiles did you use when you got that error - the ones from your webrev?
According to http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~tbell/7181175/webrev.00/make/windows/makefiles/rules.make.sdiff.html COMPILE_RMIC should be "$(BootStrapDir)\bin\rmic", but in your error log it is "c:/PROGRA~1/Java/JDK17~1.0_0/bin/rmic" with all forward slashes. I remember that I had some trouble at that point as well when I did the initial change and quoting COMPILE_RMIC did help so I didn't thought about it any more. In my old build logs I can even see that I have double quotes at the place where COMPILE_RMIC is called. I'll retry locally and let you know if my build works without quoting COMPILE_RMIC. Regards, Volker On Wed, Jul 18, 2012 at 6:46 AM, Tim Bell <tim.b...@oracle.com> wrote: > On 07/17/12 17:16, David Holmes wrote: >> >> I'm not sure if you are agreeing with me :) so to be clear. We have: > > > Thanks for the clarification. I think we all agree here, but best to be > sure. > > >> >> COMPILE_JAVAC="$(BootStrapDir)\bin\javac" $(BOOTSTRAP_JAVAC_FLAGS) >> COMPILE_RMIC="$(BootStrapDir)\bin\rmic" >> >> at present. > > > Correct. This is in hotspot/make/windows/makefiles/rules.make > > >> But if we were to change that to >> >> COMPILE_RMIC="$(BootStrapDir)\bin\rmic" $(BOOTSTRAP_RMIC_FLAGS) >> for example, then >> >> "$(COMPILE_RMIC)" -classpath ... >> >> would not work. > > > Again, correct. > > Unfortunately, my efforts to do the logical thing are running off into the > tall weeds: > > > ######################################################################## > ######################################################################## > ##### Entering hotspot for target(s) all_product ##### > ######################################################################## > > cd ./hotspot/make && \ > make JDK_TOPDIR=/d/tools/jdk8/7152336-closed/jdk > JDK_MAKE_SHARED_DIR=/d/tools/jdk8/7152336-closed/jdk/make/common/shared > EXTERNALSANITYCONTROL=true SOURCE_LANGUAGE_VERSION=7 TARGET_CLASS_VERSION=7 > MILESTONE=internal BUILD_NUMBER=b00 JDK_BUILD_NUMBER=b00 > FULL_VERSION=1.8.0-internal-tbbell_2012_07_16_20_52-b00 > PREVIOUS_JDK_VERSION=1.7.0 JDK_VERSION=1.8.0 JDK_MKTG_VERSION=8 > JDK_MAJOR_VERSION=1 JDK_MINOR_VERSION=8 JDK_MICRO_VERSION=0 > PREVIOUS_MAJOR_VERSION=1 PREVIOUS_MINOR_VERSION=7 PREVIOUS_MICRO_VERSION=0 > ARCH_DATA_MODEL=64 COOKED_BUILD_NUMBER=0 ANT_HOME="D:/APACHE~1.0" > ALT_OUTPUTDIR=D:/tools/jdk8/7152336-closed/windows-amd64/hotspot/outputdir > ALT_EXPORT_PATH=D:/tools/jdk8/7152336-closed/windows-amd64/hotspot/import > BUILD_FLAVOR=product ALT_SLASH_JAVA="D:/java/" > ALT_BOOTDIR=C:/PROGRA~1/Java/JDK17~1.0_0 > ALT_LANGTOOLS_DIST=D:/tools/jdk8/7152336-closed/windows-amd64/langtools/dist > all_product > INFO: ENABLE_FULL_DEBUG_SYMBOLS=1 > make[2]: Entering directory `/d/tools/jdk8/7152336-closed/hotspot/make' > cd /d/tools/jdk8/7152336-closed/hotspot/make; \ > make BUILD_FLAVOR=product VM_TARGET=product generic_build2 > ALT_OUTPUTDIR=D:/tools/jdk8/7152336-closed/windows-amd64/hotspot/outputdir > INFO: ENABLE_FULL_DEBUG_SYMBOLS=1 > > make[3]: Entering directory `/d/tools/jdk8/7152336-closed/hotspot/make' > mkdir -p D:/tools/jdk8/7152336-closed/windows-amd64/hotspot/outputdir > cd D:/tools/jdk8/7152336-closed/windows-amd64/hotspot/outputdir; \ > MAKEFLAGS= MFLAGS= nmake -NOLOGO -f > /d/tools/jdk8/7152336-closed/hotspot/make/windows/build.make \ > Variant=compiler2 \ > WorkSpace=/d/tools/jdk8/7152336-closed/hotspot \ > BootStrapDir=/c/PROGRA~1/Java/JDK17~1.0_0 \ > BuildUser=tbbell \ > LP64=1 ARCH=x86 BUILDARCH=amd64 Platform_arch=x86 > Platform_arch_model=x86_64 ENABLE_FULL_DEBUG_SYMBOLS=1 ZIP_DEBUGINFO_FILES=1 > RM="rm -f" ZIPEXE=zip JDK_MKTG_VERSION=8 JDK_MAJOR_VER=1 JDK_MINOR_VER=8 > JDK_MICRO_VER=0 JDK_BUILD_NUMBER=0 BUILD_WIN_SA=1 > JAVA_HOME=/c/PROGRA~1/Java/JDK17~1.0_0 > OUTPUTDIR=/d/tools/jdk8/7152336-closed/windows-amd64/hotspot/outputdir > GAMMADIR=/d/tools/jdk8/7152336-closed/hotspot MAKE_VERBOSE=y > HOTSPOT_RELEASE_VERSION=24.0-b14 > JRE_RELEASE_VERSION=1.8.0-internal-tbbell_2012_07_16_20_52-b00 > HOTSPOT_BUILD_VERSION= product > mkdir windows_amd64_compiler2 > > > cd windows_amd64_compiler2 > nmake -nologo -f > d:/tools/jdk8/7152336-closed/hotspot\make\windows\makefiles\top.make > BUILD_FLAVOR=product ARCH=x86 > nmake in .\generated > cd generated && c:\PROGRA~2\MICROS~2.0\VC\BIN\amd64\nmake.EXE > -NOLOGO -f > d:/tools/jdk8/7152336-closed/hotspot\make\windows\makefiles\generated.make > DIR=.\generated BUILD_FLAVOR=product > mkdir -p ../generated/saclasses > ...Building sa-jdi.jar > ...c:/PROGRA~1/Java/JDK17~1.0_0/bin/javac -g -encoding ascii -source 6 > -target 6 -classpath c:/PROGRA~1/Java/JDK17~1.0_0/lib/tools.jar -d > ../generated/saclasses .... > c:/PROGRA~1/Java/JDK17~1.0_0/bin/rmic -classpath > ../generated/saclasses -d ../generated/saclasses > sun.jvm.hotspot.debugger.remote.RemoteDebuggerServer > echo sun.jvm.hotspot.runtime.VM.saBuildVersion=24.0-b14> > ../generated/saclasses/sa.properties > The system cannot find the path specified. > NMAKE : fatal error U1077: 'echo' : return code '0x1' > Stop. > NMAKE : fatal error U1077: 'cd' : return code '0x2' > Stop. > NMAKE : fatal error U1077: 'c:\PROGRA~2\MICROS~2.0\VC\BIN\amd64\nmake.EXE' : > return code '0x2' > Stop. > make[3]: *** [generic_build2] Error 2 > make[3]: Leaving directory `/d/tools/jdk8/7152336-closed/hotspot/make' > make[2]: *** [product] Error 2 > make[2]: Leaving directory `/d/tools/jdk8/7152336-closed/hotspot/make' > make[1]: *** [hotspot-build] Error 2 > make[1]: Leaving directory `/d/tools/jdk8/7152336-closed' > make: *** [build_product_image] Error 2 >