Help: jdk/make/common/shared/Defs.gmk:563: *** "ERROR: Trouble with the absolute path for OUTPUTDIR '

[Francis ANDRE]

Hi

Using a fresh copy of the jdk7u repository, and running make -d sanity, I got 
the error below. Why OUTPUTDIR must be absolute or if it must be absolute, why 
it is not when running make sanity?

It seems to me that OUTPUTDIR is computed in the jdk subdirectory makefiles 
while it is not in the top level Makefile. Thus, the check that it must be 
absolute in the included jdk/make/common/shared/Defs.gmk fails. The only way I 
found to bypass this error is to set 
ALT_OUTPUTDIR=Z:/JDK/hsx/jdk7u/build/windows-i586

Francis

FrancisANDRE at idefix /cygdrive/Z/JDK/hsx/jdk7u
$ make -d sanity
GNU Make 3.82
Built for i686-pc-cygwin
Copyright (C) 2010  Free Software Foundation, Inc.
License GPLv3+: GNU GPL version 3 or later <http://gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html>
This is free software: you are free to change and redistribute it.
There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law.
Reading makefiles...
Reading makefile `Makefile'...
Reading makefile `jdk/make/common/shared/Defs-control.gmk' (search path) (no ~ 
expansion)...
Reading makefile `jdk/make/common/shared/Platform.gmk' (search path) (no ~ 
expansion)...
Reading makefile `jdk/make/common/shared/Defs.gmk' (search path) (no ~ expansion)...
Reading makefile `jdk/make/common/shared/Defs-utils.gmk' (search path) (no ~ 
expansion)...
Reading makefile `jdk/make/common/shared/Defs-versions.gmk' (search path) (no ~ 
expansion)...
Reading makefile `jdk/make/common/shared/Defs-windows.gmk' (search path) (no ~ 
expansion)...
jdk/make/common/shared/Defs.gmk:563: *** "ERROR: Trouble with the absolute path 
for OUTPUTDIR './bui
ld/windows-i586'".  Stop.

FrancisANDRE at idefix /cygdrive/Z/JDK/hsx/jdk7u
$ env | grep ALT
ALT_SLASH_JAVA=C:/Progra~1/Java/jdk1.7.0_45
ALT_FREETYPE_HEADERS_PATH=Z:/JDK/freetype-2.4.7/include
ALT_JDK_IMPORT_PATH=C:/Progra~1/Java/jdk1.7.0_45
ALT_FREETYPE_LIB_PATH=Z:/JDK/freetype-2.4.7/objs/win32/vc2010
ALT_DXSDK_PATH=C:/PROGRA~1/MI7482~1
ALT_BOOTDIR=C:/Progra~1/Java/jdk1.7.0_45