Re: Building openjdk 8 on Mac OS X

2015-01-07 Thread David Chase
For reference, with version numbers, here is what worked for me this morning, for both release and fastdebug builds (including closed bits): I'm on Mavericks (10.9.5), using Xcode 4.6.3, (sudo xcode-select -s /Applications/Xcode4.6.3.app/Contents/Developer) MacPorts lipo (it works, put it earlier

Re: Did someone enable warnings=errors for more files?

2014-10-17 Thread David Chase
to approach changes > to fdlibm to work around new C compiler warnings. > > -Joe > > On 10/16/2014 6:08 PM, David Chase wrote: >> I am more competent at modifying FP source code than I am at tinkering with >> flags in our build system. >> If someone else is solv

Re: Did someone enable warnings=errors for more files?

2014-10-16 Thread David Chase
of the build > system. > > Thanks, > > -Joe > > On 10/16/2014 2:37 PM, David Chase wrote: >> Rhetorical question, actually — someone clearly did. >> Someone also did not test it with gcc 4.8.recent on Ubuntu 14 or >> Clang.current on Mavericks. >>

Did someone enable warnings=errors for more files?

2014-10-16 Thread David Chase
Rhetorical question, actually — someone clearly did. Someone also did not test it with gcc 4.8.recent on Ubuntu 14 or Clang.current on Mavericks. One of the offending directories is fdlibm, and I have experience with that, so since I can’t get anything else done, I will see about cleaning up tha

Re: RFR: JDK-8033532 Freetype include statement must come before X11 include

2014-02-04 Thread David Chase
That's the same change I tested, so I (not a Reviewer) approve, except I think the copyright needs to be 2014. On 2014-02-04, at 5:09 AM, Magnus Ihse Bursie wrote: > As reported by David Chase, if the X11 include file contains an older version > of freetype than the one detected b

Re: Heads up, apparent change in MacPorts borks jdk9 build on Mac

2014-02-03 Thread David Chase
On 2014-02-03, at 3:00 PM, Magnus Ihse Bursie wrote: > Can you please try the following patch and see if it solves your problem? > > diff --git a/make/lib/Awt2dLibraries.gmk b/make/lib/Awt2dLibraries.gmk > --- a/make/lib/Awt2dLibraries.gmk > +++ b/make/lib/Awt2dLibraries.gmk > @@ -792,9 +792,9

Re: Heads up, apparent change in MacPorts borks jdk9 build on Mac

2014-02-03 Thread David Chase
On 2014-02-03, at 9:59 AM, Magnus Ihse Bursie wrote: > You seem to have gotten a mismatch due to several versions of freetype > installed. At first I agreed with you, but after looking a little more I think I have been using the same one all along, and it just changed. Perhaps this is just

Heads up, apparent change in MacPorts borks jdk9 build on Mac

2014-01-31 Thread David Chase
This is Mountain Lion, not the latest version of XCode (i.e., this has all been working fine for months). I just pulled, updated, configured, and tried to build and got this: In file included from /Users/dr2chase/work/jdk9/jdk/src/share/native/sun/font/freetypeScaler.c:34: /usr/X11/include/ft2bu

Re: Heads-up, anyone who keeps their Mac software up-to-date

2013-09-19 Thread David Chase
't have. This succeeded -- it configured properly (fastdebug), built, and the resulting java (built minutes ago) successfully ran. David On 2013-09-19, at 9:22 AM, David Chase wrote: > That did not have the desired effect on the command line tools. I do still > have backups, but yuc

Re: Heads-up, anyone who keeps their Mac software up-to-date

2013-09-19 Thread David Chase
d line with "xcode-select". > > /Staffan > > On 19 sep 2013, at 14:05, David Chase wrote: > >> XCode 5 changed things a little: >> >> configure: The C compiler (located as /usr/bin/gcc) does not seem to be the >> required GCC compiler. >>

Re: Heads-up, anyone who keeps their Mac software up-to-date

2013-09-19 Thread David Chase
And more yet, after an edit and USE_CLANG=true make images CONF=fastdebug (note "true", not "1", plus I removed some offending flags) It fails, for lack of symbols. Backups are looking better than ever, and I don't recommend this upgrade quite yet. Making adlc Undefined symbols for architecture

Re: Heads-up, anyone who keeps their Mac software up-to-date

2013-09-19 Thread David Chase
/adlparse.cpp:4476:21: error: '&&' within '||' [-Werror,-Wlogical-op-parentheses] So this is a bit of a mess. David On 2013-09-19, at 8:26 AM, David Chase wrote: > It was not in the code I pulled from jdk8/tl this morning. > I hacked configure to see how far

Re: Heads-up, anyone who keeps their Mac software up-to-date

2013-09-19 Thread David Chase
n 19.09.2013, at 16:05, David Chase wrote: > >> XCode 5 changed things a little: >> >> configure: The C compiler (located as /usr/bin/gcc) does not seem to be the >> required GCC compiler. >> configure: The result from running with --version was: "Configured w

Heads-up, anyone who keeps their Mac software up-to-date

2013-09-19 Thread David Chase
XCode 5 changed things a little: configure: The C compiler (located as /usr/bin/gcc) does not seem to be the required GCC compiler. configure: The result from running with --version was: "Configured with: --prefix=/Applications/Xcode.app/Contents/Developer/usr --with-gxx-include-dir=/usr/includ

Re: RFR: 8019470 "Changes needed to compile JDK8 on MacOS with clang compiler"

2013-07-24 Thread David Chase
On 2013-07-23, at 7:38 PM, Tim Bell wrote: > Hello Leonid: > >> Just to satisfy my curiosity: what are advantages of using clang instead of >> gcc? > > I am a mere messenger here, but I am told that clang/clang++: > > - is command line compatible with gcc > - is faster > - produces better di

Re: A small bug: F# in $PATH

2013-06-05 Thread David Chase
On 2013-06-04, at 11:22 PM, Tim Bell wrote: > Hi Max: > >> I'm trying to build 32-bit openjdk on a Windows machine. My Visual Studio >> 2010 installation includes F#, > > That is why the README [1] advises ''Only the C++ part of VS2010 is needed". That's a misleading instruction, since it se

Re: Windows configure "issues"

2013-05-29 Thread David Chase
On 2013-05-28, at 11:27 PM, Tim Bell wrote: > > Possibly - but I tried for several days to come up with a build configuration > that worked for both VS 2010 and 2012. > > I ran out of time for that experiment. Nice to have, but if we do not move > to VS2012 with JDK8, we will have to wait un

Re: Windows configure "issues"

2013-05-28 Thread David Chase
quot;x86", not "80x86" I tweaked my built to handle those two cases. The latest failure I have not yet worked around: 3) Link complains about an extra argument _build_pch_file.obj when linking adlc . Any hints as to how to deal with this last error are welcome. David On 2013-05-24

Re: Windows configure "issues"

2013-05-24 Thread David Chase
FYI, progress report. No additional changes to the build, but the instructions may require tweaking. Did manage successful builds without closed subdirectories, using VS2012 and DirectX 2010. Required installation+build of Freetype using instructions from Volker's blog, adapted slightly for up

Re: Somewhat wonkier Windows problem

2013-05-24 Thread David Chase
ld on Windows. David On 2013-05-24, at 6:06 AM, Erik Joelsson wrote: > On 2013-05-24 11:41, Anthony Petrov wrote: >> [ adding 2d-dev@ ] >> >> On 05/24/2013 11:23 AM, Erik Joelsson wrote: >>> On 2013-05-23 20:10, David Chase wrote: >>>> One change to

Re: Somewhat wonkier Windows problem

2013-05-23 Thread David Chase
One change to add (a by-hand "diff") to common/autoconf/toolchain_windows.m4 : AC_MSG_CHECKING([for DirectX SDK lib dir]) if test "x$with_dxsdk_lib" != x; then DXSDK_LIB_PATH="$with_dxsdk_lib" elif test "x$OPENJDK_TARGET_CPU" = "xx86_64"; then DXSDK_LIB_PATH="$dxsdk_path/Lib/x64" +

Re: Somewhat wonkier Windows problem

2013-05-23 Thread David Chase
On 2013-05-22, at 8:44 PM, Tim Bell wrote: > Here is a pointer to the source changes I needed to make, so far: > >http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~tbell/VS2012/webrev.00/ > > You will need to run 'bash common/autoconf/autoconf.sh' after applying the > patch from the webrev. > > It has also bee

Re: Somewhat wonkier Windows problem

2013-05-23 Thread David Chase
o you will be able to build 32-bit only. I > have not verified that. > > Tim > > [1] http://hg.openjdk.java.net/jdk8/awt/rev/dd1a80efa7cf > > > On 05/22/13 04:27 PM, David Chase wrote: >> I hope I'm trying to solve a simpler problem, which is just a build,

Re: Somewhat wonkier Windows problem

2013-05-23 Thread David Chase
I think you need to understand the problem I'm after -- currently, our public instructions for third-party OpenJDK (8) builds don't work. They don't build at all, so porting is completely out of the question. I'm trying to come up with instructions that will at least build something that will r

Re: Somewhat wonkier Windows problem

2013-05-22 Thread David Chase
I think that there is a 64-bit compiler in there, though it seems to not be the default. I saw three different command-line choices, and one is 64-bit, which I am using. The available copies of the DirectX SDK (later than 2004) were not recognized as 32-bit by configure -- doesn't mean that they

Re: Somewhat wonkier Windows problem

2013-05-22 Thread David Chase
so vaguely recall some silly thing with VS2012 that it was for Windows 8 > only and you needed VS2012sp1 to be able to build for Windows releases before > Windows 8? I'm not sure I remember that right. :^( > > -kto > > On May 22, 2013, at 4:27 PM, David Chase wrote: &

Re: Somewhat wonkier Windows problem

2013-05-22 Thread David Chase
I hope I'm trying to solve a simpler problem, which is just a build, as if I were someone outside Oracle playing with Openjdk. I assume my problems are a subset of the release problem. David On 2013-05-22, at 6:53 PM, Kelly O'Hair wrote: > Windows VS compilers are a pain. Each release has it

Somewhat wonkier Windows problem

2013-05-22 Thread David Chase
I am persisting in my attempt to compile OpenJDK 8 on Windows 7, using the tools likely to be handy for someone outside Oracle attempting to do this, because our existing directions are borken and need to be fixed, if possible. I'm using VS2012, because that's what someone would normally do in 2

Re: Windows configure "issues"

2013-05-21 Thread David Chase
a real adventure:) > > Regards, > Volker > > > > On Mon, May 20, 2013 at 3:04 PM, David Chase wrote: > In addition, the instructions must note that if the Express compiler is used, > the 64-bit compiler is (apparently, according to configure) not provided, and > hence --with-target-bits=32 is required. > > David > >

Re: Windows configure "issues"

2013-05-20 Thread David Chase
In addition, the instructions must note that if the Express compiler is used, the 64-bit compiler is (apparently, according to configure) not provided, and hence --with-target-bits=32 is required. David

Re: Windows configure "issues"

2013-05-20 Thread David Chase
On 2013-05-19, at 4:58 PM, David Chase wrote: > #3, the DirectX 9.0 link is not maybe dead, it is dead. > The search for "DirectX 9.0 SDK Update Summer 2004" is also dead; nothing is > found. > Searches for "DirectX 9" yield downloads that are not SDKs, sea

Windows configure "issues"

2013-05-19 Thread David Chase
This is for Windows 7, following instructions, mostly vanilla. I restarted after all the various installations. I'm "following" the instructions at http://hg.openjdk.java.net/jdk8/jdk8/raw-file/tip/README-builds.html The non-vanilla step, inspired by the cautionary warnings about paths with spac

Re: MacOS build tool selections for JDK8

2013-05-12 Thread David Chase
A problem with gcc-4.8 as installed by MacPorts, if we ever intended to build 32-bit binaries: gcc-mp-4.8 -O -m32 -msse -mpclmul -mavx TryLoop.c -lz ld: warning: ignoring file /opt/local/lib/gcc48/libgcc_ext.10.5.dylib, missing required architecture i386 in file /opt/local/lib/gcc48/libgcc_ex

Re: MacOS build tool selections for JDK8

2013-05-11 Thread David Chase
Which version of MacOS? 10.8.3 is current, rumor is 10.9 is coming sometime later this year, and we had problems obtaining boxes running 10.7 for testing purposes. We may have a similar problem later this year; I imagine that new Macs for testing and/or development get purchased after June, 10

Is slowdebug supposed to also compile JNI portions of JDK with -g?

2013-05-09 Thread David Chase
Because for me it did not, at least not on a Mac. My workaround, which was not too painful because the new build seems to use fully-qualified path names: touch jdk/src/share/native/java/util/zip/CRC32.c make images CONF=macosx-x86_64-normal-server-slowdebug LOG=debug ... touch jdk/src/share/nat

Re: MacOS parfait problem (old build)

2013-04-29 Thread David Chase
On 2013-04-29, at 5:49 AM, Erik Joelsson wrote: >> >> So, do we call this a bug? >> And assuming we do, it needs fixing in hotspot, jdk, and root, right? >> > Yes, and possibly some closed repos too (deploy). A comment on why the > seemingly redundant macro is added would be good too. I take

MacOS parfait problem (old build)

2013-04-25 Thread David Chase
Related bugs: 8008451, 8005879 This may generalize to new build as well, but I have not tested that. Apparently, when you pass " -mmacosx-version-min=..." to gcc on the Mac, it quietly generates a definition for MAC_OS_X_VERSION_MIN_REQUIRED . Parfait (1.1) doesn't know about this trick (why sh

Re: Best way to do conditionals ?

2013-04-15 Thread David Chase
still had the space at the end of the line. Doh! > > Thanks for helping out. > > David > > On 13/04/2013 11:24 PM, David Chase wrote: >> >> On 2013-04-12, at 7:00 PM, David Holmes wrote: >>> >>> Thanks for the sanity check. >>> >>> T

Re: Best way to do conditionals ?

2013-04-13 Thread David Chase
On 2013-04-12, at 7:00 PM, David Holmes wrote: > > Thanks for the sanity check. > > This implies to me that either > > a) it is a phase 1 versus phase 2 issue, but given the content of spec.gmk I > can't see how that can be the case; or > > b) the value of something is not what I naively thi

Re: Best way to do conditionals ?

2013-04-12 Thread David Chase
Sanity check -- this is make 3.81, right? I checked on both MacOS 10.8 and Ubuntu Because (as is always the case) "it works for me": -- JVM_VARIANT_SERVER := true JVM_VARIANT_CLIENT := true CLIENT_AND_SERVER1 := $(and $(findstring true, $(JVM_VARIANT_SERVER)), $(findstring true, $(JVM

Re: New build, gobjcopy failure, any clues?

2013-03-27 Thread David Chase
Getting to new build on Solaris11-sparc (not necessary for Solaris11-x86). Here's a recipe that works. It is biased towards modern releases of software. Note the use of undocumented flag-seting to configure and make at various steps, and the two out-of-band adjustments to binutils. 1) configure+

Re: New build, gobjcopy failure, any clues?

2013-03-27 Thread David Chase
On 2013-03-27, at 1:08 PM, Volker Simonis wrote: > Hi David, > > I found a Solaris 11 box today and it seems that this is really a problem of > binutils 2.19 on Solaris 11. And vice-versa -- 10 minutes ago I tried gobjcopy 2.15 on the command line (on Solaris 11, with the same libjvm.so) and

Gnu mkdir version 3.16 considered harmful

2013-03-27 Thread David Chase
It led to an ugly failure (see below). I took it off my path, cleaned, configured, and the build (so far) went better. I checked the version it was picking up, and it was 3.16. So configure might want to check for this. (Why is this crap on my path? I no longer remember, it has been there for alm

I don't think this is intended behavior for LOG=trace

2013-03-27 Thread David Chase
PATH=/java/devtools/sparc/bin:/java/devtools/sparc/SUNWspro/SS12u1/bin/:/usr/sfw/bin:/usr/ccs/bin:/home/drchase/bin:/pkg/gnu/bin:/pkg/isv/bin:/pkg/usrdist/bin:/pkg/local/bin:/lab/tools/bin:/lab/east/bin:/usr/bin:/bin uname -a = SunOS dr-evil 5.10 Generic_142900-03 sun4v sparc SUNW,Sun-Fire-T1000 m

Re: New build, gobjcopy failure, any clues?

2013-03-27 Thread David Chase
ists all members of the archive. David On 2013-03-26, at 10:40 PM, David Holmes wrote: > On 27/03/2013 2:33 AM, David Chase wrote: >> I think I'm doing a vanilla new-build, but obviously I'm not, because it >> fails. >> What should I be looking for?

Re: New build, gobjcopy failure, any clues?

2013-03-26 Thread David Chase
More non-clues. I did a make JOBS=1 LOG=debug, and then reproduced the creation step with cut and paste: /java/devtools/sparc/SUNWspro/SS12u1/prod/bin/CC -m64 -xarch=sparc -library=%none -mt -G -norunpath -z noversion -M mapfile_extended -h libjvm.so -o libjvm.so JvmOffsets.o (many lines omitt

Re: New build, gobjcopy failure, any clues?

2013-03-26 Thread David Chase
2**0 > CONTENTS, ALLOC, LOAD, DATA > 21 .bss 000778a8 01d3ed38 01d3ed38 01c3ed38 2**3 > ALLOC > 22 .comment 18d3 02477133 2**0 > CONTENTS, READONLY > 23 .g

Re: New build, gobjcopy failure, any clues?

2013-03-26 Thread David Chase
ion 1, dynamically linked, not stripped What sort of "file" is your libjvm.so? David On 2013-03-26, at 2:00 PM, Volker Simonis wrote: > On Tue, Mar 26, 2013 at 6:43 PM, David Chase wrote: >> >> This is Solaris 11, not sure if that matters (configure didn't seem t

Re: New build, gobjcopy failure, any clues?

2013-03-26 Thread David Chase
This is Solaris 11, not sure if that matters (configure didn't seem to think it was important enough to mention it). cmp says /usr/{sfw,ccs}/bin/gobjcopy are equal. ls says they are the same inode. Just for grins, I tried putting /usr/sfw/bin earlier in my path, and trying again (reconfiguring

New build, gobjcopy failure, any clues?

2013-03-26 Thread David Chase
I think I'm doing a vanilla new-build, but obviously I'm not, because it fails. What should I be looking for? the failure: Linking vm... ld: warning: symbol '__JvmOffsets' has differing types: (file JvmOffsets.o type=OBJT; file dtrace.o type=FUNC); ld: warning: symbol 'CodeCache::_heap' h

Does README-builds.html need to mention Nashorn?

2013-03-19 Thread David Chase
I was just browsing through, to be sure I was going to set the knobs right for some performance testing, and noticed no mention of the repository I had to clone last night. David

Re: Building on Mac

2013-03-15 Thread David Chase
On 2013-03-15, at 5:17 PM, David DeHaven wrote: > It's not installed by default, and I'm not sure why you'd want to since Apple > provides it. But if it's there that could be a concern. If you install subversion, you get file, and there are other things that (if installed) will pull in subver

Re: Building on Mac

2013-03-15 Thread David Chase
For reference, I build on Mountain Lion, with latest XCode, recent XQuartz, and some MacPorts. "grep opt/local config.log" produces: configure:6295: result: /opt/local/bin/gsed configure:8107: found /opt/local/bin/port configure:10420: found /opt/local/bin/pkg-config configure:10432: result: /op

Re: Questionable new-build failure

2013-02-01 Thread David Chase
see: > > + $(GENSRC_X11WRAPPERS_TMP)/sizer.$*.exe | $(SORT) > $@.tmp > > but this: > > +long 4 > +int 4 > +short 2 > +ptr 4 > +Bool 4 > +Atom 4 > +Window 4 > +XExtData.number 0 > ... > > does not appear sorted to me. > > David H. > -

Re: Questionable new-build failure

2013-01-28 Thread David Chase
On 2013-01-25, at 4:55 PM, Kelly O'Hair wrote: > Please file JBS Issues. So this is a new bug that needs filing? I think it's sort of a duplicate, see below. > And keep in mind every "Solaris 10" system could be different. Solaris 10 10/09 s10x_u8wos_08a X86 Builds with jdk8, fails with jdk

Questionable new-build failure

2013-01-24 Thread David Chase
I'm trying new-build on a Solaris 10 box, and it goes okay till this comparison: COMPARING /export/drchase/jdk8tl/build/solaris-x86_64-normal-server-fastdebug/jdk/gensrc_x11wrappers/sizer/sizes.64 and /export/drchase/jdk8tl/jdk/src/solaris/classes/sun/awt/X11/generator/sizes.64-solaris-i386 The t

Re: Mac problem(?), new build, --with-debug-level=slowdebug

2013-01-14 Thread David Chase
Just a nit, but configure is quite happy to use the PATH environment variable, not that it mentions this anywhere in the output of "sh configure help". Yes, I know that PATH is implicit, yes, I know that I am complaining about Unix documentation, yes I know that the new build system is in fact

Re: Mac problem(?), new build, --with-debug-level=slowdebug

2013-01-13 Thread David Chase
On 2013-01-13, at 7:17 PM, David Holmes wrote: > David, > > I could be mistaken but I thought the use of CXX= was intended as a make > variable to override the value that configure places in the spec.gmk file - > not as a way to force configure to output something to spec.gmk. It's entirely

Re: Mac problem(?), new build, --with-debug-level=slowdebug

2013-01-11 Thread David Chase
Problem solved: /Developer consider harmful, at least on Mountain Lion. Removing that and using the compilers installed by XCode in /usr/bin did the trick. HOWEVER - it seems dubious to me that configure should ignore the environment specification of CXX. I tried the following, where /usr/local

Re: Mac problem(?), new build, --with-debug-level=slowdebug

2013-01-11 Thread David Chase
On 2013-01-10, at 3:56 AM, Staffan Larsen wrote: > See: http://bugs.sun.com/view_bug.do?bug_id=8004490 > > Patch: http://hg.openjdk.java.net/jdk8/build/rev/2d9bb72b4e34 > > /Staffan I tried the workaround in this patch, and it did not seem to result in a debuggable hotspot. I also tried the

Re: Mac problem(?), new build, --with-debug-level=slowdebug

2013-01-09 Thread David Chase
On 2013-01-09, at 5:26 PM, Kelly O'Hair wrote: > Question 1: What specific forest did you get your sources from? > > -kto >> I configured jdk8tl in common/makefiles, default = http://hg.openjdk.java.net/jdk8/tl >> Then in hotspot-comp, I also configure for slowdebug, and default = http://hg

Mac problem(?), new build, --with-debug-level=slowdebug

2013-01-09 Thread David Chase
Summary: I wanted to debug, I configured thoroughly with slowdebug, but was not able to debug the result. More detailed: I configured jdk8tl in common/makefiles, sh ../autoconf/configure --with-debug-level=slowdebug cleaned, and then built: make CONF=macosx-x86_64-normal-server-slowdebug imag

Re: Mac build fun

2013-01-09 Thread David Chase
On 2013-01-09, at 5:07 AM, Michael McMahon wrote: > Are you building on a remote filesystem like NFS? Those .DS_Store files get > created by the finder > and can cause problems on remote filesystems where they become visible to > other software. > > There is a way to disable creation of .DS_S

Mac build fun

2013-01-08 Thread David Chase
I had a failure building on a Mac (Mountain Lion, 10.8.2), both new build and old build, at this step: /Library/Java/JavaVirtualMachines/1.7.0.jdk/Contents/Home/bin/java -XX:-PrintVMOptions -XX:+UnlockDiagnosticVMOptions -XX:-LogVMOutput -Djava.awt.headless=true -Xmx512m -Xms512m -X

Re: X11/Intrinsic.h not found, ALT_X11_PATH=/opt/X11

2013-01-07 Thread David Chase
> > New build worked last time I tried it; I will try again after sending this > email. New build (jdk8tl) confirmed to (still) work on MacOS 10.8.2 with recent Developer Tools and XQuartz. (I got as far as running a properties-printer with the built system.) David

Re: X11/Intrinsic.h not found, ALT_X11_PATH=/opt/X11

2013-01-07 Thread David Chase
On 2013-01-07, at 2:41 PM, Kelly O'Hair wrote: > If someone could document everything that was done to get this working I > would appreciate it. > > We have a bunch of 10.8 macs that we need to figure out how to get them to > build the jdk for 10.7 > or we have to come up with a better answer

Re: JDK7 build on mac os fails: JavaNativeFoundation.h: No such file

2012-12-27 Thread David Chase
On 2012-12-27, at 7:41 AM, mikhail cherkasov wrote: > I have installed all software from the following list: > http://wiki.se.oracle.com/display/JPG/Build+JDK+on+Mac+OS+X#BuildJDKonMacOSX-System > I not sure about X11 -does it require separate installation? Yes, X11 requires separate installat

Re: Review Request: JDK-8004145: build-infra: hgforest.sh cannot be interrupted safely.

2012-11-29 Thread David Chase
Would it make sense to use "$@" instead of $* in the argument expansion? This occurs in get_source.sh, also in the new hgforest.sh. The use of "$@" I believe preserves the command line argument parsing: Assume this is script "asdf": #!/bin/bash echo quote-dollar-at-quote for i in "$@" ; do ech

Working with common/autoconf/configure

2012-11-07 Thread David Chase
I'm working with a newly configured Linux box, trying the new build system, and I think I ran into some glitches (that I worked around). The box (uname -a) Linux bran 2.6.39-200.24.1.el6uek.x86_64 #1 SMP Sat Jun 23 02:39:07 EDT 2012 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux Before doing much work, I had