[aarch64-port-dev ] Error: missing `client' JVM at `/home/aph/jdk8/build/linux-aarch64-normal-server-slowdebug/jdk/lib/aarch64/client/libjvm.so'.

[Edward Nevill]

On Fri, 2013-11-08 at 17:36 +0000, Andrew Haley wrote:
> If I configure
> 
>   --with-debug-level=slowdebug --with-jvm-variants=server --disable-zip-debug-info
> 
> I get
> 
>   Error: missing `client' JVM at `/home/aph/jdk8/build/linux-aarch64-normal-server-slowdebug/jdk/lib/aarch64/client/libjvm.so'.
> 
> WTF?  Can someone please point to whichever bit of configury needs
> fixing?

OK,

What you need to do to get around this for the moment is edit

jdk/src/solaris/bin/aarch64/jvm.cfg

and change

-client KNOWN
-server IF_SERVER_CLASS KNOWN

to

-server KNOWN
-client IGNORE

The problem is the jvm.cfg file is saying it knows about a client
compiler and that that compiler is the default.

This only appears when you do a native build because on a cross compile
build it does not try to use the JVM it as just built.

I think the better solution is

-client IF_SERVER_CLASS -server
-server KNOWN

and make the IF_SERVER_CLASS predicate dependant on there being a server
compiler (otherwise the IF_SERVER_CLASS is always true).

I am still in the US. I will look at this further when I am back on
Monday,

All the best,
Ed.