This is an issue with gtest, which is a bit special. If you use --disable-gtest with configure, can you build successfully then?
/Magnus > 25 jan. 2017 kl. 09:34 skrev Mike Burton <[email protected]>: > > >>> On 24 Jan 2017, at 21:25, Kim Barrett <[email protected]> wrote: >>> >>> On Jan 23, 2017, at 5:34 AM, Mike Burton <[email protected]> wrote: >>> >>> Hello, >>> >>> I ran an OpenJDK Hack Day session on Saturday, at which some people got >>> stuck on lost a fair bit of time, failing to build JDK9. Then we found that >>> updating gcc from 4.6 to 4.8 fixed it. >>> Could the `configure` script be updated (by running get-source.sh) so as to >>> check for minimum required gcc version? >>> >>> Best Regards >>> >>> Mike Burton >> >> I don’t think there is supposed to be a requirement for gcc > 4.6 in JDK 9. >> I’m pretty >> sure there are folks still building with older versions. It would be >> helpful to know the >> details of the platform and the error messages that led to the conclusion >> that something >> more recent was required. > > Platform is Ubuntu 14.04, error message below: > > === Output from failing command(s) repeated here === > * For target hotspot_variant-server_libjvm_gtest_objs_BUILD_GTEST_LIBJVM_link: > /usr/bin/ld: /usr/lib/gcc/x86_64-linux-gnu/4.6/libstdc++.a(ctype.o): > relocation R_X86_64_32S against `vtable for std::ctype<wchar_t>' can not be > used when making a shared object; recompile with -fPIC > /usr/lib/gcc/x86_64-linux-gnu/4.6/libstdc++.a: could not read symbols: Bad > value > collect2: ld returned 1 exit status > === End of repeated output === > >
