I'm building 8u5. I think that was the first update after JDK 8 shipped. Do you remember the nature of the subtle differences? This problem could very well be the result of my changes to some of the make files.
Tom -----Original Message----- From: Erik Joelsson [mailto:erik.joels...@oracle.com] Sent: Monday, October 13, 2014 5:05 AM To: Salter, Thomas A Cc: Omair Majid; OpenJDK (build-dev@openjdk.java.net) Subject: Re: GNU Make 4.0 Hello, The patch from Omair will likely be needed for building hotspot. Your failure is much earlier though. There are some subtle differences in make 3.82 and 4.0 regarding escaping of $ in certain situations. This caused some trouble with referring to inner classes from makefiles. I did some improvements in this area at some point but don't remember exactly when. When you say not up to date, how old is that? I'm pretty sure that jdk8 at release was buildable with make 4.0, but I may be wrong. /Erik On 2014-10-10 21:39, Omair Majid wrote: > * Salter, Thomas A <thomas.sal...@unisys.com> [2014-10-10 14:23]: >> Are there any known issues with using GNU Make 4.0 to build OpenJDK8? > Yes. I had to add this patch in Fedora to build with Make 4.0: > http://pkgs.fedoraproject.org/cgit/java-1.8.0-openjdk.git/tree/hotspot-build-j-directive.patch > > Cheers, > Omair >
