Re: "expr: syntax error" on jdk9/dev build

2015-11-04 Thread Edward Nevill
Hi, Could I +1 a request for this to be fixed. I appreciate it is harmless, but it is an annoyance and it is just going to be a source of bug reports forever:-) If you wish I can author a changeset for this. Regards, Ed. On Wed, 2015-11-04 at 08:49 +0100, Volker Simonis wrote: > Hi Johnathan,

Re: "expr: syntax error" on jdk9/dev build

2015-11-04 Thread Volker Simonis
OK, I'll prepare a change :) On Wed, Nov 4, 2015 at 4:45 PM, Edward Nevill wrote: > Hi, > > Could I +1 a request for this to be fixed. I appreciate it is harmless, but > it is an annoyance and it is just going to be a source of bug reports > forever:-) > > If you wish I can author a changeset f

Re: "expr: syntax error" on jdk9/dev build

2015-11-04 Thread Volker Simonis
Thanks for the opening the bug report. I've triaged it but as I can not push it anyway, I leave the fix for the interested reader :) On Wed, Nov 4, 2015 at 12:58 PM, Magnus Ihse Bursie wrote: > Volker, > > Thanks for the great analysis! Your trivial fix seems reasonable. I opened > https://bugs

Re: "expr: syntax error" on jdk9/dev build

2015-11-04 Thread Magnus Ihse Bursie
Volker, Thanks for the great analysis! Your trivial fix seems reasonable. I opened https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-8141416 to track this. It's up for grabs to add that line. :) (Otherwise I'll fix it when I have the time.) /Magnus On 2015-11-04 08:49, Volker Simonis wrote: Hi John

Re: "expr: syntax error" on jdk9/dev build

2015-11-04 Thread Volker Simonis
Hi Johnathan, this is a known problem - at least to me :) It is caused by a peculiarity of the gcc version on Ubuntu where "gcc -dumpversion" doesn't print a micro-version: Ubuntu: $ gcc -dumpversion 4.6 Any other Linux: $ gcc -dumpversion 4.8.3 This "feature" is tracked under https://bugs.lau

"expr: syntax error" on jdk9/dev build

2015-11-03 Thread Jonathan Gibbons
I'm seeing a bunch of "syntax error"s on an otherwise successful build of jdk9/dev. This is on Ubuntu Linux, 14.04. Is this a known problem; should I be worried? -- Jon Creating support/jce/policy/unlimited/US_export_policy.jar Creating support/jce/policy/limited/local_policy.jar Creating sup