Build problems on Ubuntu 8.04

[Keith McGuigan]

How about a 'configure' step, which can perform a lot of the 
system-specific probing.  Not sure we need to jump all the way into 
automake or autoconf (but if we did, there's a lot of existing code out 
there we could use).  But a 'configure; make; make install' sequence is 
a very familiar concept.

--
- Keith

Kelly O'Hair wrote:
>
>
> Roman Kennke wrote:
>> Hi there,
>>
>> I've just setup a box with the soon-to-be-released Ubuntu 8.04, and see
>> a number of problems:
>>
>> Minor: make sanity does not check for gawk and c++, although the build
>> requires them. Maybe there are some more of these, but this is what I
>> found.
>>
>
> We never have done sanity checks on all the unix command tools.
> The sanity checks on the compilers usually involved finding the version
> number and verifying it, but even then it might only result in a warning.
> Over the past few years, most of the fatal sanity checks have been
> relaxed to warnings to allow for maximum flexibility. Most compilers
> and tools between Solaris, Windows, Linux, etc. are rather inconsistent
> when it comes to getting their version string.
> But I suppose we could always check for at least their existence.
>
> Verifying the Linux package list is very difficult to maintain for all 
> the
> variations of Linux.
>
> I'm open to solutions here.
>
> -kto
>
>> Major:
>> Compilation of the NIO classes fails, it looks like the generation of a
>> couple of source files does not work correctly. Probably this is also a
>> problem with missing tools, but I can't figure out what it could be.
>> Telling from the genCoder.sh script, this would be sed and awk, but both
>> are installed. See javac error below. Any ideas on this one?
>>
>> Cheers, Roman
>>
>> # Running javac:
>> /usr/lib/jvm/java-6-openjdk/bin/java -Xmx896m -Xms128m -XX:PermSize=32m
>> -XX:MaxPermSize=160m
>> -Xbootclasspath/p:/home/roman/src/OpenJDK/openjdk/build/linux-amd64/langtools/dist/bootstrap/lib/javac.jar 
>> -jar 
>> /home/roman/src/OpenJDK/openjdk/build/linux-amd64/langtools/dist/bootstrap/lib/javac.jar 
>> -source 1.5 -target 5 -encoding ascii 
>> -Xbootclasspath:/home/roman/src/OpenJDK/openjdk/build/linux-amd64/classes 
>> -sourcepath 
>> /home/roman/src/OpenJDK/openjdk/build/linux-amd64/gensrc:../../../src/solaris/classes:../../../src/share/classes 
>> -d /home/roman/src/OpenJDK/openjdk/build/linux-amd64/classes 
>> @/home/roman/src/OpenJDK/openjdk/build/linux-amd64/tmp/java/java.lang/java/.classes.list 
>>
>> /home/roman/src/OpenJDK/openjdk/build/linux-amd64/gensrc/java/nio/charset/CharsetEncoder.java:142: 
>> cannot find symbol
>> symbol  : class $replType$
>> location: class java.nio.charset.CharsetEncoder
>>     private $replType$ replacement;
>>             ^
>> /home/roman/src/OpenJDK/openjdk/build/linux-amd64/gensrc/java/nio/charset/CharsetEncoder.java:185: 
>> cannot find symbol
>> symbol  : class $replType$
>> location: class java.nio.charset.CharsetEncoder
>>                    $replType$ replacement)
>>                    ^
>> /home/roman/src/OpenJDK/openjdk/build/linux-amd64/gensrc/java/nio/charset/CharsetEncoder.java:246: 
>> cannot find symbol
>> symbol  : class $replType$
>> location: class java.nio.charset.CharsetEncoder
>>     public final $replType$ replacement() {
>>                  ^
>> /home/roman/src/OpenJDK/openjdk/build/linux-amd64/gensrc/java/nio/charset/CharsetEncoder.java:275: 
>> cannot find symbol
>> symbol  : class $replType$
>> location: class java.nio.charset.CharsetEncoder
>>     public final CharsetEncoder replaceWith($replType$ newReplacement) {
>>                                             ^
>> /home/roman/src/OpenJDK/openjdk/build/linux-amd64/gensrc/java/nio/charset/CharsetEncoder.java:301: 
>> cannot find symbol
>> symbol  : class $replType$
>> location: class java.nio.charset.CharsetEncoder
>>     protected void implReplaceWith($replType$ newReplacement) {
>>                                    ^
>> Note: Some input files use or override a deprecated API.
>> Note: Recompile with -Xlint:deprecation for details.
>> Note: Some input files use unchecked or unsafe operations.
>> Note: Recompile with -Xlint:unchecked for details.
>> 5 errors
>> make[3]: *** [.compile.classlist] Error 1
>> make[3]: Leaving directory
>> `/home/roman/src/OpenJDK/openjdk/jdk/make/java/java'
>> make[2]: *** [all] Error 1
>> make[2]: Leaving directory
>> `/home/roman/src/OpenJDK/openjdk/jdk/make/java'
>> make[1]: *** [all] Error 1
>> make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/roman/src/OpenJDK/openjdk/jdk/make'
>>
>>