New build, gobjcopy failure, any clues?

[Volker Simonis]

Hi David,

I think you have to use /usr/sfw/bin/gobjcopy but I have no idea why you
have '/usr/ccs/bin/gobjcopy' and what kind of 'objcopy' it is. I don't have
'/usr/ccs/bin/gobjcopy'   on my Solaris10 box.

Regards,
Volker

On Tue, Mar 26, 2013 at 5:33 PM, David Chase <david.r.chase at oracle.com>wrote:

> I think I'm doing a vanilla new-build, but obviously I'm not, because it
> fails.
> What should I be looking for?
>
> the failure:
>
> Linking vm...
> ld: warning: symbol '__JvmOffsets' has differing types:
>         (file JvmOffsets.o type=OBJT; file dtrace.o type=FUNC);
> ld: warning: symbol 'CodeCache::_heap' has differing types:
>         (file codeCache.o type=OBJT; file dtrace.o type=FUNC);
> ld: warning: symbol 'Universe::_collectedHeap' has differing types:
>         (file adaptiveSizePolicy.o type=OBJT; file dtrace.o type=FUNC);
> ld: warning: symbol 'BufferBlob::__vtbl' has differing types:
>         (file codeBlob.o type=OBJT; file dtrace.o type=FUNC);
> ld: warning: symbol 'Method::__vtbl' has differing types:
>         (file dtrace.o type=FUNC; file method.o type=OBJT);
> ld: warning: symbol 'nmethod::__vtbl' has differing types:
>         (file dtrace.o type=FUNC; file nmethod.o type=OBJT);
> Opening 'libjvm.so' for update
> No SHF_ALLOC flags needed to be cleared.
> Done with 'libjvm.so'
> /usr/ccs/bin/gobjcopy:libjvm.so: File format not recognized
> ...
>
> the offending file:
>
> file ./hotspot/solaris_sparcv9_compiler2/product/libjvm.so
> ./hotspot/solaris_sparcv9_compiler2/product/libjvm.so:  ELF 64-bit MSB
> dynamic lib SPARCV9 Version 1, dynamically linked, not stripped
>
>
> configuration summary:
>
> Configuration summary:
> * Debug level:    release
> * JDK variant:    normal
> * JVM variants:   server
> * OpenJDK target: OS: solaris, CPU architecture: sparc, address length: 64
>
> Tools summary:
> * Boot JDK:       java version "1.8.0-ea" Java(TM) SE Runtime Environment
> (build 1.8.0-ea-b82) Java HotSpot(TM) Server VM (build 25.0-b23, mixed
> mode)  (at /export/drchase/jdk8)
> * C Compiler:     Sun Studio version 5.10 (at
> /java/devtools/sparc/SUNWspro/SS12u1/prod/bin/cc)
> * C++ Compiler:   Sun Studio version 5.10 (at
> /java/devtools/sparc/SUNWspro/SS12u1/prod/bin/CC)
>
>
>