Build problem (Windows, b24)

[Dmitri Trembovetski]

Ted Neward wrote:
> Tim--
> 
>> Maybe you came in too low and clipped the treetops.
>>
> I thought part of the idea would be that if I've just made a change to one
> part of the tree, I don't have to rebuild the whole tree, so I would think
> coming in lower to the ground would be supported...?
> 
> Let's turn it around this way: what is Sun doing among the various teams? If
> a developer makes a change, say, to the java.lang.instrument package, what's
> the quickest way to get his build, presuming that he hasn't changed anything
> outside of that directory? I don't want to be swimming upstream, but in this
> case, I really don't know which way the water flows. :-)
> 
>> Try your 'make all' from [...]/cygdrive/c/Prg/OpenJDK/jdk7/jdk/make
>>
> Will do; by the way, what targets are supported in these lower-level makes?
> "fastdebug" and "fastdebug_build" didn't take, AFAICT (no target).

   To build fastdebug binaries, set env. variable FASTDEBUG=true (or
   pass it to the make file). That is probably the issue that caused the
   build failure - you started the build from the top with
   fastdebug target, but attempted to build the subtree without FASTDEBUG.

   Thanks,
     Dmitri


> 
>> The first thing the jdk7/jdk build does (after the sanity check) is
>> create a number of tools
>> that will be used later.  If you start building lower down in
>> jdk/make/java there may be an
>> assumption about work that has already been done.
>>
> I can see that, and they are there--they built successfully. What I don't
> understand is why the "treetop build" I tried was looking for them in
> windows-i586 and not windows-i586-fastdebug.
> 
>> This is not automatic because we don't want to fill up someone's disk
>> space with log files.
>> Not so much of a problem these days, but back in the early days it was.
>>
> Maybe an option flag/env var in the make set, a la ALT_LOGFILES=false to
> turn them off or something? It's just a common thing to have the build tool
> logging this stuff these days, it seems.
> 
> Ted Neward
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>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Tim.Bell at Sun.COM [mailto:Tim.Bell at Sun.COM]
>> Sent: Tuesday, December 18, 2007 12:12 AM
>> To: Ted Neward
>> Cc: 'build-dev'
>> Subject: Re: Build problem (Windows, b24)
>>
>> Hi -
>>
>>> OpenJDK:Ted at XPJAVA:/cygdrive/c/Prg/OpenJDK/jdk7/jdk/make/java
>>> $ make all
>> Maybe you came in too low and clipped the treetops.
>>
>> Try your 'make all' from [...]/cygdrive/c/Prg/OpenJDK/jdk7/jdk/make
>>
>> The first thing the jdk7/jdk build does (after the sanity check) is
>> create a number of tools
>> that will be used later.  If you start building lower down in
>> jdk/make/java there may be an
>> assumption about work that has already been done.
>>
>> So try it again from [...]/cygdrive/c/Prg/OpenJDK/jdk7/jdk/make
>>
>> BTW - I always save the build log, as Kelly wrote:
>>
>>>   make |& tee build.log        or make >& build.log
>> This is not automatic because we don't want to fill up someone's disk
>> space with log files.
>> Not so much of a problem these days, but back in the early days it was.
>>
>> HTH - Tim
>>
>>
>>> Begin Processing SUBDIRS: hpi version jvm redist verify fdlibm java
>> sun_nio
>>> jli
>>> main zip security npt java_crw_demo java_hprof_demo math awt util
>> text
>>> applet ne
>>> t nio sql rmi jar beans logging management instrument
>>>>>> Recursively making hpi all @ Mon Dec 17 23:40:21 PST 2007 ...
>>> make[1]: Entering directory
>> `/cygdrive/c/Prg/OpenJDK/jdk7/jdk/make/java/hpi'
>>> Begin Processing SUBDIRS: windows
>>>>>> Recursively making windows all @ Mon Dec 17 23:40:25 PST 2007 ...
>>> make[2]: Entering directory
>>> `/cygdrive/c/Prg/OpenJDK/jdk7/jdk/make/java/hpi/wind
>>> ows'
>>> make[2]: *** No rule to make target
>>> `../../../../build/windows-i586/btjars/strip
>>> properties.jar', needed by `strip_all_props'.  Stop.
>>> make[2]: Leaving directory
>>> `/cygdrive/c/Prg/OpenJDK/jdk7/jdk/make/java/hpi/windo
>>> ws'
>>> make[1]: *** [all] Error 1
>>> make[1]: Leaving directory
>> `/cygdrive/c/Prg/OpenJDK/jdk7/jdk/make/java/hpi'
>>> make: *** [all] Error 1
>>> OpenJDK:Ted at XPJAVA:/cygdrive/c/Prg/OpenJDK/jdk7/jdk/make/java
>>> $
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