On Wed, 2018-09-05 at 17:05 +0100, Andrew Haley wrote: > The JDK8u backport of 8034788 changed the variable name CXX_VERSION > (in configure) to CXX_VERSION_NUMBER. Unfortunately this was not done > consistently, and as a result the version number check for GCC is > broken. As a result of that brokenness, HotSpot built on all GCC > versions >=6 is unstable. > > Intriguingly, the comments aroud te affected code are correct, and > refer to CXX_VERSION_NUMBER, but the actual variable name is wrong. > > http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~aph/8210423/ > > OK?
This fixes the issue I was seeing on jdk8u-dev head on F28 with GCC 8.1.1. java -version crashed on release build. That's a +1 from me (not a Reviewer). Thanks, Severin
