Well, the fun did not last too long. Next I tried a "make all", which leads to the following errorin nashorn/nasgen. Am I working on the wrong repository version for the latest stable openjdk build? I cloned the jdk8 tip.
$ make all Building OpenJDK for target 'all' in configuration 'windows-x86-normal-server-re lease' ## Starting langtools ## Finished langtools (build time 00:00:01) ## Starting hotspot ## Finished hotspot (build time 00:00:01) ## Starting corba ## Finished corba (build time 00:00:02) ## Starting jaxp ## Finished jaxp (build time 00:00:01) ## Starting jaxws ## Finished jaxws (build time 00:00:02) ## Starting jdk ## Finished jdk (build time 00:00:10) ## Starting demos ## Finished demos (build time 00:00:02) ## Starting nashorn Running nasgen Exception in thread "main" java.lang.VerifyError: class jdk.nashorn.internal.obj ects.ScriptFunctionImpl overrides final method setPrototype.(Ljava/lang/Object;) V at java.lang.ClassLoader.defineClass1(Native Method) at java.lang.ClassLoader.defineClass(ClassLoader.java:763) at java.security.SecureClassLoader.defineClass(SecureClassLoader.java:14 2) at java.net.URLClassLoader.defineClass(URLClassLoader.java:467) at java.net.URLClassLoader.access$100(URLClassLoader.java:73) at java.net.URLClassLoader$1.run(URLClassLoader.java:368) at java.net.URLClassLoader$1.run(URLClassLoader.java:362) at java.security.AccessController.doPrivileged(Native Method) at java.net.URLClassLoader.findClass(URLClassLoader.java:361) at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(ClassLoader.java:424) at sun.misc.Launcher$AppClassLoader.loadClass(Launcher.java:331) at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(ClassLoader.java:357) at jdk.nashorn.internal.tools.nasgen.StringConstants.<clinit>(StringCons tants.java:85) at jdk.nashorn.internal.tools.nasgen.ScriptClassInstrumentor$2.visitMeth odInsn(ScriptClassInstrumentor.java:157) at jdk.internal.org.objectweb.asm.MethodVisitor.visitMethodInsn(MethodVi sitor.java:509) at jdk.internal.org.objectweb.asm.ClassReader.readCode(ClassReader.java: 1445) at jdk.internal.org.objectweb.asm.ClassReader.readMethod(ClassReader.jav a:1046) at jdk.internal.org.objectweb.asm.ClassReader.accept(ClassReader.java:72 2) at jdk.internal.org.objectweb.asm.ClassReader.accept(ClassReader.java:53 5) at jdk.nashorn.internal.tools.nasgen.Main.process(Main.java:121) at jdk.nashorn.internal.tools.nasgen.Main.processAll(Main.java:88) at jdk.nashorn.internal.tools.nasgen.Main.main(Main.java:62) make[1]: *** [BuildNashorn.gmk:79: /cygdrive/c/openjdk/jdk8/build/windows-x86-no rmal-server-release/nashorn/classes/_the.nasgen.run] Error 1 make: *** [/cygdrive/c/openjdk/jdk8//make/Main.gmk:122: nashorn-only] Error 2 -- peter kollner <pe...@asgalon.net>