Le 20/11/2013 08:37, Ivan Krylov a écrit :
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.
A build system should be ideally self contained, including its documentation.
This means that there should be no need to gogol for finding out additional
help. There is already the problem of non proprietary additional software for
building OpenJDK and centralizing all pieces in a single place seems to me a
good idea. Moreover, the day the Simonis'blog is removed for any reason, one
looses this Window's focused paper...
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.
I already exchange with the Cygwin guys for making ksh recognizing windows path
for the webrev.ksh script...they said clearly no way...
Francis
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
