Testing OpenJDK under Windows 7 64, problem with Makefile

[Daniel López]

I just tried downloading and building myself make 3.80 (as Mozilla guys
suggest) or the newest 3.82 and none of them is able to run the Makefile
unmodified :(.

S!
D.

2013/3/4 Daniel López <d.lopez.j at gmail.com>

> This happens trying to test Java 8 following the instructions described in
> http://java.net/projects/adoptopenjdk/pages/BuildWindows that I thought
> were related to the new system and then trying to test the installation
> using the instructions provided here
> http://java.net/projects/adoptopenjdk/pages/InstallJtreg.
>
> Is this the old system of testing the jdk? The building itself succeeds,
> it's the test Makefile that gives me troubles (OpenJDK/jdk8_tl/jdk/test) to
> be precise.
> Nevertheless, I'll try to build the make from the sources and see if that
> also fixes it.
>
> Thanks,
> D.
>
>
> 2013/3/4 Erik Joelsson <erik.joelsson at oracle.com>
>
>> I'm assuming this is concerning jdk7 (and the old build system) so moving
>> to the build-dev list. This is a known issue in the cygwin version of make.
>> It can be addressed by building it yourself from source, enabling the
>> feature to accept ':' in paths. See the build readme for more details.
>>
>> http://hg.openjdk.java.net/**jdk7/build/raw-file/tip/**
>> README-builds.html#gmake<http://hg.openjdk.java.net/jdk7/build/raw-file/tip/README-builds.html#gmake>
>>
>> (In the new build system in jdk8, this is solved differently and should
>> not be an issue.)
>>
>> /Erik
>>
>>
>> On 2013-02-27 13:05, Daniel López wrote:
>>
>>> Hi there,
>>> I've been redirected here from the Adopt OpenJDK programme, as the
>>> investigation while trying to "adopt" the OpenJDK build using Windows has
>>> led me to some issues involving the build scripts.
>>> Back to the point, I was able to successfully build the OpenJDK following
>>> the instructions from the programme, but when it was time to verify the
>>> build, the make did not succeed. After some research, I found out that
>>> one
>>> of the issues is that, under Cygwin, the JDK does not like being passed
>>> the
>>> Unix equivalent paths, so you need the DOS adapted ones, but the Makefile
>>> is unable to work with the DOS adapted ones (due to the presence of ':'
>>> in
>>> the paths that is interpreted as path separators). The Makefile is
>>> transforming that paths and use them in several places (using cygpath -m
>>> -s
>>> ) but then it fails with a "multiple targets" error due to ':' being used
>>> in some paths.
>>>
>>> The solution I found was to convert the paths that are used internally
>>> inside the Makefile using 'cygpath -u' and use the DOS paths when they
>>> are
>>> passed to call the jtreg tool (a Java call). It surely needs some testing
>>> and MK might have a similar problem (I have not tested it, I don't have
>>> it
>>> installed) but just I wanted to let you know about the issue, in case
>>> someone else has the same troubles.
>>>
>>> How would you like to proceed with it? Google did not produce any bug
>>> report that covered that and I'm quite new to the Adop OpenJDK programme
>>> and the whole OpenJDK contribution (the documentation is not too clear as
>>> it assumes a bug is already created and the bugDatabase page is a WIP).
>>>
>>> Cheers!
>>> D.
>>>
>>> To follow the whole discussion, the topic at the Adopt OpenJDK google
>>> group
>>> should be here:
>>> https://groups.google.com/**forum/?hl=es&fromgroups=#!**
>>> topic/adopt-openjdk/**qRdMlWFgrhc<https://groups.google.com/forum/?hl=es&fromgroups=#!topic/adopt-openjdk/qRdMlWFgrhc>
>>>
>>
>