RFR: Bug ID: 9007227: - make/sanity-rules.gmk:61: *** multiple target patterns. Stop

[Francis ANDRE]

Hi Dalibor

Everybody at Oracle and may be elsewhere knows how difficult is the task of 
building OpenJDK on WXP/W7. There was even in a previous OpenJDK contest a 
proposal for making this windows build smoother... Thus, the blog of Volker 
SIMONIS is really of a great help to avoid loosing time, energy and aspirine for 
building OpenJDK on Windows. I was specially redevable to Volker on the chapter 
about the specific version of Make 3.82 which in the standard cygwin delivery 
does not understand the Windows Letter based path. Without his guide on 
compiling and running the latest Make out of cygwin, NO ONE, and I repeat, NO 
ONE can make the OpenJDK because it fails without a clear and understandable 
errors. Moreover, when asking the build list about those errors, no one answers 
because no one can imagine that the Cygwin make cannot manage Windows letter 
based path.

So, yes, adding the blog of Wolker SIMONIS or may be a reformatted text*is a 
major help for building OpenJDK on windows*.

Please, reconsider your position on adding this blog post as a README file.

Francis



Le 18/11/2013 20:11, Dalibor Topic a écrit :
> On 10/6/13 8:37 PM, Francis ANDRE wrote:
>> Hi
>>
>> I submit this patch for review for this Bug ID: 9007227: - make/sanity-rules.gmk:61: *** multiple target patterns.  Stop
>>
>> The webrev.ksh is broken on WXP/Cygwin. So I am providing here the hg outgoing report as well as the new file README-Windows-Cygwin-VS2010
> I don't think that it's necessary to include blog posts in the source code archives. ;)
>
> cheers,
> dalibor topic