I went through the exercise of building openjdk 7-8 on Windows and
concur it isn't trivial. But google helps and I found very the helpful
Volker's blogpost very quickly.
This problem should not be solved by adding extra pointer to
workarounds. The build system on Windows should work with the latest
Cygwin's make. I think that the openjdk community is big enough to
influence and push through all necessary fixes into make.
Ivan
On 11/19/13 11:05 AM, Francis ANDRE wrote:
Hi Dalibor
Everybody at Oracle and may be elsewhere knows how difficult is the
task of building OpenJDK on WXP/W7. There was even in a previous
OpenJDK contest a proposal for making this windows build smoother...
Thus, the blog of Volker SIMONIS is really of a great help to avoid
loosing time, energy and aspirine for building OpenJDK on Windows. I
was specially redevable to Volker on the chapter about the specific
version of Make 3.82 which in the standard cygwin delivery does not
understand the Windows Letter based path. Without his guide on
compiling and running the latest Make out of cygwin, NO ONE, and I
repeat, NO ONE can make the OpenJDK because it fails without a clear
and understandable errors. Moreover, when asking the build list about
those errors, no one answers because no one can imagine that the
Cygwin make cannot manage Windows letter based path.
So, yes, adding the blog of Wolker SIMONIS or may be a reformatted
text*is a major help for building OpenJDK on windows*.
Please, reconsider your position on adding this blog post as a README
file.
Francis
Le 18/11/2013 20:11, Dalibor Topic a écrit :
On 10/6/13 8:37 PM, Francis ANDRE wrote:
Hi
I submit this patch for review for this Bug ID: 9007227: -
make/sanity-rules.gmk:61: *** multiple target patterns. Stop
The webrev.ksh is broken on WXP/Cygwin. So I am providing here the
hg outgoing report as well as the new file README-Windows-Cygwin-VS2010
I don't think that it's necessary to include blog posts in the source
code archives. ;)
cheers,
dalibor topic
