Help me to build openjdk on my machine

[John Yeary]

Hello Max,

I have not been able to get it to compile either and at this point no one
has responded to my post about PPC. I am not sure if it will compile for our
platform any more.

Does anyone have a successful recent build?

John

On Sun, Jul 10, 2011 at 6:11 AM, Max Pole <max_pole at gmx.de> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I hope it's the right mailing list for my question...
>
> I'm trying to build opendjdk7 (bsd-port) in my PowerPC Mac. I downloaded a
> right bootstrap VM and got platform-independent code (corba, jaxp, jaxws
> etc) successfully compiled.
>
> Unfortunately I cannot compile hotspot VM because of the following error:
>
> g++-4.0 -D_ALLBSD_SOURCE -D_GNU_SOURCE -DCC_INTERP -DZERO -DPPC
> -DZERO_LIBARCH=\"ppc\" -DPRODUCT -I.
> -I/Users/maxim/bsd-port/hotspot/src/share/vm/prims
> -I/Users/maxim/bsd-port/hotspot/src/share/vm
> -I/Users/maxim/bsd-port/hotspot/src/cpu/zero/vm
> -I/Users/maxim/bsd-port/hotspot/src/os_cpu/bsd_zero/vm
> -I/Users/maxim/bsd-port/hotspot/src/os/bsd/vm
> -I/Users/maxim/bsd-port/hotspot/src/os/posix/vm -I../generated
> -DHOTSPOT_RELEASE_VERSION="\"21.0-b17\""
> -DHOTSPOT_BUILD_TARGET="\"product\"" -DHOTSPOT_BUILD_USER="\"maxim\""
> -DHOTSPOT_LIB_ARCH=\"ppc\"
> -DJRE_RELEASE_VERSION="\"1.7.0-internal-maxim_2011_07_09_02_30-b00\""
> -DHOTSPOT_VM_DISTRO="\"OpenJDK\"" -DTARGET_OS_FAMILY_bsd -DTARGET_ARCH_zero
> -DTARGET_ARCH_MODEL_zero -DTARGET_OS_ARCH_bsd_zero
> -DTARGET_OS_ARCH_MODEL_bsd_zero -DTARGET_COMPILER_gcc -I/usr/include/ffi
> -fPIC -fno-rtti -fno-exceptions -pthread -fcheck-new -m32 -pipe -O3
> -fno-strict-aliasing -I/usr/local/include -Werror -Wpointer-arith
> -Wconversion -Wsign-compare    -D_XOPE!
>  N_SOURCE -D_DARWIN_C_SOURCE -c -MMD -MP -MF
> ../generated/dependencies/precompiled.hpp.gch.d -x c++-header
> /Users/maxim/bsd-port/hotspot/src/share/vm/precompiled.hpp -o
> precompiled.hpp.gch
> In file included from
> /Users/maxim/bsd-port/hotspot/src/share/vm/ci/ciMethod.hpp:33,
>                 from
> /Users/maxim/bsd-port/hotspot/src/share/vm/code/debugInfoRec.hpp:30,
>                 from
> /Users/maxim/bsd-port/hotspot/src/share/vm/ci/ciEnv.hpp:31,
>                 from
> /Users/maxim/bsd-port/hotspot/src/share/vm/ci/ciUtilities.hpp:28,
>                 from
> /Users/maxim/bsd-port/hotspot/src/share/vm/ci/ciNullObject.hpp:30,
>                 from
> /Users/maxim/bsd-port/hotspot/src/share/vm/ci/ciConstant.hpp:29,
>                 from
> /Users/maxim/bsd-port/hotspot/src/share/vm/precompiled.hpp:36:
> /Users/maxim/bsd-port/hotspot/src/share/vm/prims/methodHandles.hpp:727:35:
> error: methodHandles_zero.hpp: No such file or directory
> make[6]: *** [precompiled.hpp.gch] Error 1
> make[5]: *** [the_vm] Error 2
> make[4]: *** [productzero] Error 2
> make[3]: *** [generic_buildzero] Error 2
> make[2]: *** [productzero] Error 2
> make[1]: *** [hotspot-build] Error 2
> make: *** [build_product_image] Error 2
>
> ---------------------------------------------------------------------
>
> The missing source is there but the complation script seems to be unable to
> locate it.
> Moreover, I found out that the platform-specific code (PPC in my case) is
> NOT there! The directory
>
> /Users/maxim/bsd-port/hotspot/src/cpu
>
> doesn't contain any PPC-related code but only those for sparc, x86 and
> zero. I have no idea what the latter means though...
>
> My Question: Is PPC arch deprecated meanwhile? If not, what's the reason to
> strip it out from the distribution?
>
> Is there any possibility to obtain the PPC code for that VM?
>
> Any help would be highly appreciated. I'm about to contribute to a
> open-source project related on Java 1.6 but I cannot run that software
> because Apple discontinued PPC macs, their support and Java development for
> PPC. So openjdk is my only way to proceed...
>
> Info on system I use:
>
> Processor: PowerPC G5 2.1 GHz
> System: Mac OS X 10.5.8
>
> Best regards
> Maxim Poliakovski
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