Heads up: New version of CYGWIN's cache breaks the windows build.

Bradford Wetmore bradford.wetmore at oracle.com
Fri Nov 1 23:21:39 UTC 2013


My bug was closed as a dup, I've captured some of the pertinent info in 
both bugs.  Hopefully people can easily find the error condition if they 
hit it.

Internally, we have a minimal CYGWIN distribution that will likely be 
updated to remove ccache.  Tim just pinged me on that.

Brad


On 10/31/2013 4:51 PM, Mike Duigou wrote:
> Magnus indicated in another thread earlier today that ccache doesn't do anything on windows since we use the microsoft compilers.
>
> --disable-ccache or uninstall it.
>
> I filed an RFE to disable ccache on windows.
>
> Mike
>
> On Oct 31 2013, at 15:50 , Bradford Wetmore <bradford.wetmore at oracle.com> wrote:
>
>> P.S.  This version of ccache was added two days ago.
>>
>> Brad
>>
>>
>> On 10/31/2013 3:42 PM, Bradford Wetmore wrote:
>>> I just rebuilt my CYGWIN, and got ccache 3.1.9-2, which enables ccache
>>> in the new build environment.  fixpath.exe does not play well with it.
>>>
>>> Please see:
>>>
>>> https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-8027683
>>>
>>> JDK-8027683: New version of CYGWIN includes ccache 3.1.9-2, breaks the
>>> windows build.
>>>
>>> The symptom is:
>>>
>>>   Could not start process! Failed with error 2: The system cannot find
>>> the file specified.
>>>
>>> Brad
>>>
>



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