I did my first clone/build of jdk8 today and the build failed with... make[3]: Entering directory `/cygdrive/c/Users/Pete/JDK8/swing/jdk/make/java/redist/sajdi'
ASSEMBLY_IMPORT: ../../../../build/windows-i586/lib/sa-jdi.jar /usr/bin/mkdir -p ../../../../build/windows-i586/lib rm -f ../../../../build/windows-i586/lib/sa-jdi.jar /usr/bin/cp C:/Users/Pete/jdk1.8.0/lib/sa-jdi.jar ../../../../build/windows-i586/lib/sa-jdi.jar ASSEMBLY_IMPORT: ../../../../build/windows-i586/bin/sawindbg.dll /usr/bin/mkdir -p ../../../../build/windows-i586/bin rm -f ../../../../build/windows-i586/bin/sawindbg.dll /usr/bin/cp C:/Users/Pete/jdk1.8.0/jre/bin/sawindbg.dll ../../../../build/windows-i586/bin/sawindbg.dll make[3]: *** No rule to make target `C:/Users/Pete/jdk1.8.0/jre/bin/sawindbg.map', needed by `../../../../build/windows-i586/bin/sawindbg.map'. Stop. make[3]: Leaving directory `/cygdrive/c/Users/Pete/JDK8/swing/jdk/make/java/redist/sajdi' I used: set ALT_JDK_IMPORT_PATH=C:\Users\Pete\jdk1.8.0 sourced from http://jre.us.oracle.com/java/re/jdk/8.0/promoted/latest/bundles/windows-i586/jdk-8-ea-windows-i586.tar.gz
