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

[Erik Joelsson]

On 2013-11-21 07:57, Francis ANDRE wrote:
> Hi Erik
>
> Le 20/11/2013 11:06, Erik Joelsson a écrit :
>> We identified cygwin make's inability to handle driveletter paths as 
>> one of the big problems with the old build system when starting the 
>> build-infra work for jdk8. So we designed the new build system to not 
>> use any mixed paths to avoid this problem.
> Yes, you are right for the building of the jdk but that's only a part 
> of the whole job. When talking about tests -- jtreg in particular --, 
> you need to go back to the path handled by Java on windows and in that 
> case, cygwin path does not work at all, only windows path with letter 
> and '/' are working... So mixed path is a good compromise on windows 
> for building, testing and delivering the full product....
>
Then this is something we still need to fix. I wasn't aware of this 
until now.

/Erik