OpenJDK Build error on Ubuntu 8.04

[David Herron]

Sam K. Raju wrote:
> Hi All,
>
>      I had download the OpenJDK source code yesterday and tried to build
> it but I got compiler error.
>
>      Somebody please help me to resolve this error. Please find error
> message in the attachment.
>
> Thanks,
>     SAM
>   

That's a known issue.  On Ubuntu 8.04 they use 'dash' rather than 'bash' 
and it's mostly compatible but for the dash in 8.04 it incorrectly 
handles some shell scripts in the openjdk source tree that are used to 
process some java template sources that create the some of the java 
source files.

root at mini:~# ls -l /bin/sh
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 4 2008-04-23 08:49 /bin/sh -> dash

I suppose one fix would be to change that symbolic link to point to 
'bash' instead.  Another workaround is to add a 'SHELL=/bin/bash' to one 
or more makefile.



- David Herron