On 03/23/2015 06:47 PM, Styx, Aaron (US SSA) wrote: > I'm working on porting Java 7 (using IcedTea 2.5.4) to a new > OS. I've completed the build once, but when I install what was built > to use as the bootstrap JDK and start a fresh build , it fails with > a seg fault when it gets into openjdk/jdk/make/com/sun/jmx running > openjdk.build/bin/java. Log file points to problematic frame of > ~BufferBlob::flush_icache_stub > > So my question is: should you be able to build IcedTea 2.5.4 using > IcedTea 2.5.4 as the bootstrap JDK? I'm just trying to figure out if > it's a problem I introduced in the port (or our OS), or if I'm > trying to do something with it that it was never meant to do. > > Just for reference, the first build of IcedTea seems to work and run > just fine. All the demos and test programs work great. The only > thing I haven't been able to with it is build itself.
I'd look at the C++ compiler. It seems that HotSpot has been miscompiled, or that there is a latent bug. Andrew.
