new build dies when doing 'make clean images'

[Ludovic HOCHET]

Thanks Erik, Andreas,
I'll adjust my steps.

On Mon, Aug 25, 2014 at 11:19 AM, Erik Joelsson
<erik.joelsson at oracle.com> wrote:
> Hello Ludovic,
>
> The lack of build summary is caused by the clean target deleting the book
> keeping files used to create that summary as part of the clean. We have just
> not designed this around running with clean in the same command line. I
> would also encourage you to not run clean on the same make command line as
> any other target as the build will run considerably slower.
>
> The slower speed is caused by us having to disable parallel execution for
> top level targets. Make normally runs targets in parallel unless there are
> dependencies declared between them. In the old build, we had the top level
> makefile forced to run sequentially, so the first target you specified
> (clean) would run and complete before the second (images) would start. This
> is no longer the case, so make would start trying to build while the clean
> target is still deleting. To prevent this from happening, if one of the
> targets to run is "clean", sequential execution of the top level is still
> enforced.
>
> We should probably try to detect the situation with clean mixed with other
> targets and issue a warning.
>
> /Erik
>
>
> On 2014-08-25 10:37, Ludovic HOCHET wrote:
>>
>> Hello,
>> I usually build the JDK using 'make clean images', however doing so
>> with the new build results in the build dying (both on Win8.1 with
>> make 3.82 or 4 and on Ubuntu 14.04), ie the build ends with no end of
>> build messages (times and 'Finished building OpenJDK for target
>> 'images''). The resulting JDK shows a run issue when launching
>> jconsole.
>>
>> Strangely using 'make LOG=debug clean images' results in a seemingly
>> working JDK even though the end of build messages still aren't part of
>> the output.
>>
>



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