When you say "JDK 8", which repository did you clone? The recommendation
is either of http://hg.openjdk.java.net/jdk8u/jdk8u or
http://hg.openjdk.java.net/jdk8u/jdk8u-dev. The latter if you intend to
do development. That's the source that is being updated and maintained
with security patches. It's also much more likely to be buildable on
newer versions of Linux.
If you cloned http://hg.openjdk.java.net/jdk8/jdk8, then you got the
source used to build the very first release of JDK 8 back in 2014. That
source is very unlikely to be buildable on any modern Linux at this
point and does not contain any security updates since 2014.
/Erik
On 2018-07-22 08:15, mr rupplin wrote:
Great. I tried JDK 8 as base and it gave the generic linux error at build.
Thanks.
________________________________
From: David Buck <david.b...@oracle.com>
Sent: Sunday, July 22, 2018 7:34 AM
To: mr rupplin
Cc: build-dev@openjdk.java.net
Subject: Re: JDK 8 Build Issue(s)
Hi Max!
Not much to go on here [0]. For what it's worth, I was able to clone
8u-dev and build it on Mint 18.3 Cinnamon (w/ JDK 7u80 as the boot JDK)
without any issues. The Mint VM image I used was new and the only thing
I did before building the JDK was run an apt-get update/upgrade cycle
and apt-get install g++).
I would also point out that Mint is not one of the platforms officialy
supported by Oracle for building JDK 8 [1]. While Mint and other
Ubuntu-based systems tend to work pretty well for building OpenJDK, you
might have an easier time starting off by building on something closer
to what we develop and test on.
Cheers,
-Buck
[0] http://www.catb.org/esr/faqs/smart-questions.html
[1] https://wiki.openjdk.java.net/display/Build/Supported+Build+Platforms
On 2018/07/22 0:17, mr rupplin wrote:
I get a cannot compile for a "generic linux" when trying to build OpenJDK 8 on
Mint.
Thanks,
Mr. Rupplin
/sr software dev
