Build error on jdk8/tl project - Thread.o:(.data.rel+0xbc): undefined reference to JVM_SetNativeThreadName

[Martijn Verburg]

Hi Alan,

Understood, I'll try with a purely 8 approach.

Cheers,
Martijn

On 25 March 2012 13:11, Alan Bateman <Alan.Bateman at oracle.com> wrote:
> On 25/03/2012 13:01, Martijn Verburg wrote:
>>
>> Hi Sean/Alan/Max,
>>
>> Sean - Your solution did the trick, and I'll probably use this for now as
>> it means a smaller VM for the members to work with
>> Alan/Max - I did get the full build going, but then my VM ran out of
>> space.
>
> I see Seán suggestion is to use a 7u4 build as the import JDK but since you
> are building jdk8 (jdk8/tl/jdk is jdk8) then your import JDK has to be jdk8
> too, otherwise you'll end up combining 7u4 and 8 bits in the build so there
> is no guarantee that you'll get consistent bits. In general partial builds
> are fragile and one needs to take great care to ensure that the import JDK
> matches exact the repositories that you are building.
>
> -Alan.