make(1) file structure design/usage docs ?

[pointo1d]

On 11/07/14 12:56, David Holmes wrote:
> On 11/07/2014 9:36 PM, pointo1d wrote:
>> TFT David ,
>>
>> On 11/07/14 06:01, David Holmes wrote:
>>> On 11/07/2014 2:09 AM, pointo1d wrote:
>>>> <snip>
>>>
>>> Check earlier in the build log to see why the corba classes.jar didn't
>>> get built.
>>
>> The corba fails to build because it seemingly can't find the most basic
>> things ...
>>
>> ## Starting corba
>> Compiling 6 files for BUILD_LOGUTIL
>> /home/dpointo8/work/repos/Mercurial/ojdk8.datum/corba/src/share/classes/com/sun/tools/corba/se/logutil/InputException.java:30: 
>>
>> error: cannot access Object
>> public class InputException {
>>         ^
>>    class file for java.lang.Object not found
>>
>> I do wonder if the image being specified in the --with-import-hotspot &
>> --with-boot-jdk options is lacking in some respect ... like the language
>> fundamentals perhaps ? Is there a definition of the expected composition
>> of any external hotspot &/or boot JDK ?
>
> I don't know what the hotspot import requirements are as I've never 
> used it. The boot JDK has to be a full JDK - the sanity check should 
> ensure it meets the minimum version needed for what is being built.

The sanity check being performed by the autoconf ?

>
>>>
>>>> <snip>
>>>
>>> This probably relates to the assumption that !OPENJDK == Oracle JDK.
>>> Do your builds set OPENJDK or not? There was a long thread on this not
>>> that long ago.
>>
>> They [my builds] didn't explicitly set OPENJDK, but having now done so
>> (to both 'true' and then 'false' in turn), the outcome is unchanged.
>
> Hmmm - if you don't set OPENJDK it will assume Oracle JDK behaviour 
> but you won't have the Oracle specific files so weird things should 
> happen.
>
> BTW your build should default to OPENJDK unless you have to have 
> defined things that look like the Oracle closed repos.
>
> Can you back up a step and simply verify if you can build OPENJDK 
> using only OpenJDK sources?

Indeed I can, a successful vanilla build was the first (and not 
surprisingly, easiest :-) step - there were warnings, but nothing fatal.

>
> David
>
>>>
>>> David
>>>
>>>> TIA ,
>>>>
>>
>> -- 
>> ​Dave Pointon FIAP MBCS - Contractor engaged by IBM
>>
>> Now I saw, tho' too late, the folly of beginning a work before we 
>> count the cost and before we we judge rightly of our strength to go 
>> thro' with it - Robinson Crusoe
>>

-- 
​Dave Pointon FIAP MBCS - Contractor engaged by IBM

Now I saw, tho' too late, the folly of beginning a work before we count the cost and before we we judge rightly of our strength to go thro' with it - Robinson Crusoe