I am currently seeing build failures on solaris, coming from within the JDK repo: /opt/jprt/products/P1/SS12u1/SS12u1/prod/bin/cc -DTRACING -DMACRO_MEMSYS_OPS -DBREAKPTS -D_BIG_ENDIAN= -DSOLARIS -DARCH='"sparcv9"' -Dsparcv9 -DNDEBUG -DTRIMMED -DRELEASE='"1.9.0-internal"' -I/tmp/jprt/P1/173806.emccorkl/s/build/solaris-sparcv9-normal-server-release/jdk/include -I/tmp/jprt/P1/173806.emccorkl/s/build/solaris-sparcv9-normal-server-release/jdk/include/solaris -I/tmp/jprt/P1/173806.emccorkl/s/jdk/src/share/javavm/export -I/tmp/jprt/P1/173806.emccorkl/s/jdk/src/solaris/javavm/export -I/tmp/jprt/P1/173806.emccorkl/s/jdk/src/share/native/common -I/tmp/jprt/P1/173806.emccorkl/s/jdk/src/solaris/native/common -m64 -D__solaris__ -xc99=%none -xCC -errshort=tags -Xa -v -mt -W0,-noglobal -KPIC -xstrconst -xregs=no%appl -I/tmp/jprt/P1/173806.emccorkl/s/build/solaris-sparcv9-normal-server-release/jdk/gensrc_headers -errtags -errwarn=%all -g -xs -xO2 -Wc,-Qrm-s -Wc,-Qiselect-T0 -DTHIS_FILE='"SolarisVirtualMachine.c"' -c -xMMD -xMF /tmp/jprt/P1/173806.emccorkl/s/build/solaris-sparcv9-normal-server-release/jdk/objs/libattach/SolarisVirtualMachine.d.tmp -o /tmp/jprt/P1/173806.emccorkl/s/build/solaris-sparcv9-normal-server-release/jdk/objs/libattach/SolarisVirtualMachine.o /tmp/jprt/P1/173806.emccorkl/s/jdk/src/solaris/native/sun/tools/attach/SolarisVirtualMachine.c "/tmp/jprt/P1/173806.emccorkl/s/jdk/src/solaris/native/sun/tools/attach/SolarisVirtualMachine.c", line 1: empty character constant "/tmp/jprt/P1/173806.emccorkl/s/jdk/src/solaris/native/sun/tools/attach/SolarisVirtualMachine.c", line 1: syntax error before or at: '' gmake[2]: *** [/tmp/jprt/P1/173806.emccorkl/s/build/solaris-sparcv9-normal-server-release/jdk/objs/libattach/SolarisVirtualMachine.o] Error 1 This is blocking integration of patches that need to go in promptly. This needs to be addressed ASAP.