JDK 8 Linking error on Fedora 16

[Andrew Haley]

On 02/23/2012 02:55 PM, David Bosschaert wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> This is probably a bit of a n00b question. However someone here might
> know the answer to this.
> When I try to build JDK 8 on Fedora 16 I'm getting the link error below.
> The environment variables I have set are:
>   ALLOW_DOWNLOADS=true
>   ALT_BOOTDIR=/usr/lib/jvm/java-1.7.0-openjdk
>   LANG=C
> 
> BTW I do have the latest libstdc++ installed:
>   $ sudo yum install libstdc++
>   Loaded plugins: langpacks, presto, refresh-packagekit
>   Setting up Install Process
>   Package libstdc++-4.6.2-1.fc16.i686 already installed and latest version
>   Nothing to do
> 
> Anyone know how to fix this?
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> David

This happens when the build has failed for some other reason.  Go into
the product directory and delete the libjvm.so symlink and try "make
hotspot" again.

Andrew.