Mac problem(?), new build, --with-debug-level=slowdebug

[Fredrik Öhrström]

Could you post the hotspot-spec.gmk file?

2013/1/9 David Chase <david.r.chase at oracle.com>:
> Summary: I wanted to debug, I configured thoroughly with slowdebug, but was not able to debug the result.
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> More detailed:
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> I configured jdk8tl in common/makefiles,
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> sh ../autoconf/configure --with-debug-level=slowdebug
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> cleaned, and then built:
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> make CONF=macosx-x86_64-normal-server-slowdebug images
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> Then export  JAVA_HOME=/Users/dr2chase/work/jdk8tl/build/macosx-x86_64-normal-server-slowdebug/images/j2sdk-image
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> Then in hotspot-comp, I also configure for slowdebug, and
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> make CONF=macosx-x86_64-normal-server-slowdebug all
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> I then attempt to debug gamma:
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> cd /Users/dr2chase/work/hotspot-comp/build/macosx-x86_64-normal-server-slowdebug/hotspot/bsd_amd64_compiler2/product
> DYLD_LIBRARY_PATH=. ./gamma -version
>   Using java runtime at: /Users/dr2chase/work/jdk8tl/build/macosx-x86_64-normal-server-slowdebug/images/j2sdk-image/jre
>   openjdk version "1.8.0-internal-debug"
>   OpenJDK Runtime Environment (build 1.8.0-internal-debug-dr2chase_2013_01_09_11_52-b00)
>   OpenJDK 64-Bit Server VM (build 25.0-b15, mixed mode)
> DYLD_LIBRARY_PATH=. gdb ./gamma
> ...
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> And I seem to get no symbols.  Line numbers don't match code, I can't print variables, etc.
> Other people (Vladimir Kozlov) using old build DO get symbols, and CAN print variables.
> We're running the same version of the OS, and the same version of gdb.
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> I cannot tell if this is pilot error or a bug.  Are there any suggestions for missteps I might have made?
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> If necessary, I can distill this down to about a dozen commands to reproduce, though it takes time to run them.
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> David
>