building on opensolaris (was Re: build failure on solaris-i586: no /usr/jdk/instances/jdk1.6.0/bin/javac)

[Max (Weijun) Wang]

I've just finished a successful full build (control build with closed  
repos) on opensolaris. Based on the last section of http://openjdk.java.net/install/ 
, I install the packages and setup the environment variables. (Yes,  
the /usr/jdk/instances/jdk1.6.0 looks like a full JDK now).

There are still some minor problems:

1. Sanity check complains cannot find MOZILLA_HEADERS_PATH, manually  
add ALT_MOZILLA_HEADERS_PATH. Don't know if this is necessary, because  
opensolaris already has those header files in /usr/include/firefox

2. Sanity check complains DEVTOOLS_PATH not set, set ALT_DEVTOOLS_PATH  
to /usr/bin, since zip and unzip are already installed.

3. While compiling hotspot:

        WARNING: You are using CC version and should be using version  
5.9.
                 Set ENFORCE_COMPILER_REV= to avoid this warning.
        ....
        gmake[7]: CC: Command not found

    Seems ALT_COMPILER_PATH is not fed into hotspot build. Simply add / 
opt/SunStudioExpress/bin/ to $PATH

4. In hotspot:
    "/myjdk/hotspot/src/share/vm/runtime/vframe.cpp", line 104: Error:  
Ambiguous "?:" expression, second operand of type "oop" and third  
operand of type "int" can be converted to one another.
    "/myjdk/hotspot/src/share/vm/runtime/vframe.cpp", line 105: Error:  
Ambiguous "?:" expression, second operand of type "oop" and third  
operand of type "int" can be converted to one another.

    Changes "NULL" to "(oop)NULL"

5. The -ldga problem of http://bugs.sun.com/bugdatabase/view_bug.do?bug_id=6792287

Thanks
Max