Can't build latest openjdk6

Fri Aug 14 13:01:33 UTC 2009

2009/8/14 Martin Buchholz <martinrb at google.com>:
> As an experiment, I tried the obvious
>
> diff --git a/make/Defs-internal.gmk b/make/Defs-internal.gmk
> --- a/make/Defs-internal.gmk
> +++ b/make/Defs-internal.gmk
> @@ -205,6 +205,7 @@
>     JDK_MAKE_SHARED_DIR=$(ABS_JDK_TOPDIR)/make/common/shared \
>     EXTERNALSANITYCONTROL=true \
>     TARGET_CLASS_VERSION=$(TARGET_CLASS_VERSION) \
> +    SOURCE_LANGUAGE_VERSION=$(TARGET_CLASS_VERSION) \
>     MILESTONE=$(MILESTONE) \
>     BUILD_NUMBER=$(BUILD_NUMBER) \
>     JDK_BUILD_NUMBER=$(JDK_BUILD_NUMBER) \
>
> and to my surprise, that caused the build to succeed.
> Note: This message still in bug-reporting, not bug-fixing, mode!
>

Worked for me too.

> Martin
>
> On Thu, Aug 13, 2009 at 21:27, Joseph D. Darcy<Joe.Darcy at sun.com> wrote:
>> I'll do some test builds myself on Friday.
>>
>> -Joe
>>
>> Jonathan Gibbons wrote:
>>>
>>> Martin,
>>>
>>> Comment noted.   I'm now on vacation, so I'll look at this next week.
>>>
>>> -- Jon
>>>
>>> On Aug 13, 2009, at 6:10 PM, Martin Buchholz wrote:
>>>
>>>> It appears that ant is being invoked with "-Djavac.target=5", but not
>>>> with -Djavac.source
>>>>
>>>> execve("/usr/bin/ant", ["ant", "-Djdk.version=1.6.0",
>>>> "-Dfull.version=1.6.0-internal-ma"..., "-Dmilestone=internal",
>>>> "-Dbuild.number=b00", "-Djavac.target=5", "-Dboot.java.home=/ .....
>>>>
>>>> In turn, this may be due to COMMON_BUILD_ARGUMENTS
>>>> including TARGET_CLASS_VERSION but not SOURCE_LANGUAGE_VERSION
>>>>
>>>> # Common make arguments (supplied to all component builds)
>>>> COMMON_BUILD_ARGUMENTS = \
>>>>   JDK_TOPDIR=$(ABS_JDK_TOPDIR) \
>>>>   JDK_MAKE_SHARED_DIR=$(ABS_JDK_TOPDIR)/make/common/shared \
>>>>   EXTERNALSANITYCONTROL=true \
>>>>   TARGET_CLASS_VERSION=$(TARGET_CLASS_VERSION) \
>>>>   MILESTONE=$(MILESTONE) \
>>>>   BUILD_NUMBER=$(BUILD_NUMBER) \
>>>>   JDK_BUILD_NUMBER=$(JDK_BUILD_NUMBER) \
>>>>   FULL_VERSION=$(FULL_VERSION) \
>>>>   PREVIOUS_JDK_VERSION=$(PREVIOUS_JDK_VERSION) \
>>>>   JDK_VERSION=$(JDK_VERSION) \
>>>>   JDK_MKTG_VERSION=$(JDK_MKTG_VERSION) \
>>>>   JDK_MAJOR_VERSION=$(JDK_MAJOR_VERSION) \
>>>>   JDK_MINOR_VERSION=$(JDK_MINOR_VERSION) \
>>>>   JDK_MICRO_VERSION=$(JDK_MICRO_VERSION)
>>>>
>>>> which would explain why invoking ant directly in the langtools directory
>>>> without -Djavac.target=5 would work fine (I haven't tried it).
>>>>
>>>> langtools build.xml could try to check javac.target and ensure that
>>>> javac.source <= javac.target
>>>> but I don't know how to do that (I hack make, not ant).
>>>>
>>>> Martin
>>>>
>>>> On Thu, Aug 13, 2009 at 17:35, Jonathan Gibbons<Jonathan.Gibbons at sun.com>
>>>> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>> The primary goal of changeset:   49:608910eef036 is to bring the
>>>>> langtools
>>>>> build into line between jdk6 and jdk7, so that we can rely on
>>>>> eseentially
>>>>>  the same behavior (subject to version differences) across the two
>>>>> repositoiries.
>>>>>
>>>>> The override mechanism is unused and harmless since javac.source is
>>>>> correctly defaulted in build.properties.  It is included in 6 to
>>>>> minimize
>>>>> the differences between 6 and 7.
>>>>>
>>>>> Generally, the langtools build tries to isolate the user as much as
>>>>> possible
>>>>> from the version of Java used to run Ant.
>>>>> To build langtools, you should just need to set boot.java.home; to run
>>>>> the
>>>>> regression tests, you will also need to
>>>>> set target.java.home.
>>>>>
>>>>> -- Jon
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> On Aug 13, 2009, at 5:00 PM, Mark Wielaard 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
>>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>
>>
>>
>

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