Can't build latest openjdk6

[Andrew John Hughes]

2009/8/14 Martin Buchholz <martinrb at google.com>:
> The version of java using ant being significant
> means there are 3 different java versions being juggled during
> a single build - it's easy for us all to get very confused.
>

This is the main problem with switching to Ant for parts of the build.
 I remember I managed to end up using Kaffe (for Ant), CACAO (as
bootstrap) and OpenJDK when I first tried building Zero on PPC.

> I'm going to try to stay in bug-reporting mode, not bug-fixing mode,
> with this problem unless Jonathan/Kelly/Joe can't reproduce the failure.
>

FWIW, I get the same failure here with Ant 1.7.1 and IcedTea6 as both
the boot JDK and Ant's JDK. Note that the build logs diagnostics about
ant to langtools/build/ant-diagnostics.log.

I'll try your fix.

> Martin
>
> On Thu, Aug 13, 2009 at 17:00, Mark Wielaard<mark at klomp.org> wrote:
>> Hi Martin,
>>
>> On Thu, 2009-08-13 at 15:25 -0700, Martin Buchholz wrote:
>>> /home/martinrb/ws/openjdk6/build/linux-amd64/langtools/build/classes
>>>     [javac] javac: source release 6 requires target release 1.6
>>>
>>> BUILD FAILED
>>> /usr/local/google/home/martin/ws/openjdk6/langtools/make/build.xml:196:
>>> The following error occurred while executing this line:
>>> /usr/local/google/home/martin/ws/openjdk6/langtools/make/build.xml:525:
>>> Compile failed; see the compiler error output for details.
>>>
>>> whether or not I use a vanilla jdk6 (or even jdk7) as bootstrap jdk
>>>
>>> Can anyone else successfully build openjdk6?
>>> If so, what is the secret?
>>> Did I miss something in my inbox?
>>
>> I haven't tried upgrading oj6 yet. And one of the reasons for not
>> upgrading icedtea6 atm is to make sure the recent changes (which as far
>> as I could tell were not discussed on the list) to the source and target
>> defaults don't break the bootstrap. The commit you probably want to
>> inspect is:
>>
>> changeset:   49:608910eef036
>> user:        jjg
>> date:        Tue Aug 11 16:40:03 2009 -0700
>> files:       make/Makefile make/build.properties make/build.xml
>> description:
>> 6870641: [langtools] update make/build.* for jdk6
>> Reviewed-by: darcy
>>
>> Unfortunately the bug associated with that commit is also not public.
>>
>> The idea behind the commit seems to be to make the -source and -target
>> explicit in more places (which is a good thing). There is now also an
>> override mechanism, that I admit to not fully understand because it
>> seems to be never used, through setting SOURCE_LANGUAGE_VERSION and/or
>> JAVAC_SOURCE_ARG.
>>
>> Also note that with ant the default source and target depends on the VM
>> that runs the ant process (which might be different from the bootstrap
>> VM you are using, it probably depends on your ant installation).
>>
>> Cheers,
>>
>> Mark
>>
>>
>

Thanks,
-- 
Andrew :-)

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