Problems building on System z

[Andrew Haley]

Neale Ferguson wrote:
> I¹m building the OpenJDK6 & 7 by way of the zeroJDK mechanism and am running
> into problems.
> 
> Using gij with icedtea6 I get:
> 
> + CLASSPATH=/home/neale/ecj-3.4.1.jar
> + /usr/bin/gij org.eclipse.jdt.internal.compiler.batch.Main -1.5 -nowarn -g
> -d lib/hotspot-tools -source 1.5 -sourcepath
> hotspot-tools:openjdk/jdk/src/share/classes:openjdk/jdk/src/solaris/classes:
> openjdk/langtools/src/share/classes:openjdk/jaxp/src/share/classes:openjdk/c
> orba/src/share/classes:openjdk/jaxws/src/share/classes:/home/neale/icedtea6-
> 1.4.1/generated:/home/neale/icedtea6-1.4.1/rt -bootclasspath ''\'''\'''
> @hotspot-tools-source-files.txt
> incorrect classpath: ''
> ----------
> 1. ERROR in 
> /home/neale/icedtea6-1.4.1/openjdk/jdk/src/share/classes/java/lang/Double.ja
> va (at line 0)
>     /*
>     ^
> Internal compiler error
> java.lang.NullPointerException
>    at java.lang.Double.parseDouble(libgcj.so.7)
>    at java.lang.Double.valueOf(libgcj.so.7)

OK, looks like your gcj is broken.  Strange: people have successfully built
OpenJDK using gcj on such systems.

> Using gij with icedtea9 I get:

icedtea7, right?

> /usr/bin/gcj -g -O2 -Wl,-Bsymbolic -findirect-dispatch -o native-ecj \
>     --main=org.eclipse.jdt.internal.compiler.batch.Main
> /home/neale/ecj-3.4.1.jar
> org/eclipse/jdt/internal/compiler/apt/dispatch/BatchAnnotationProcessorManag
> er.java: In class 
> 'org.eclipse.jdt.internal.compiler.apt.dispatch.BatchAnnotationProcessorMana
> ger':
> org/eclipse/jdt/internal/compiler/apt/dispatch/BatchAnnotationProcessorManag
> er.java: In method 
> 'org.eclipse.jdt.internal.compiler.apt.dispatch.BatchAnnotationProcessorMana
> ger.discoverNextProcessor()':
> org/eclipse/jdt/internal/compiler/apt/dispatch/BatchAnnotationProcessorManag
> er.java:110: error: verification failed at PC=251: String, int, or float
> constant expected
> org/eclipse/jdt/internal/compiler/apt/dispatch/BatchAnnotationProcessorManag
> er.java:110: error: verification failed at PC=260: incompatible type on
> stack
> org/eclipse/jdt/internal/compiler/apt/dispatch/BatchAnnotationProcessorManag
> er.java:152: confused by earlier errors, bailing out
> 
> This is with gcc 4.1.2 should I be using a later version?

I would.  It looks to me like the gcj you have installed doesn't work at all.

I'm trying to find out who actually did the System z port of OpenJDK to Fedora.

Andrew.