jdk9 windows build failure

[Phil Race]

 > What makes java.xml.bind so special that make 3.81 should barf on it, 
but no other modules?

Nothing that I can see. Its very strange.

-phil.

On 04/16/2015 02:02 AM, Magnus Ihse Bursie wrote:
> On 2015-04-15 01:44, David Katleman wrote:
>> We went through this exercise in January.
>>
>> RE intentionally uses what is the documented minimum gnumake (3.81), 
>> to verify that builds work with the oldest supported gnumake.
>>
>>> On 2015/1/31 4:01, David Katleman wrote:
>>>
>>> You need to revert your 4.0 change make to JDK9 builds. Until dev 
>>> upgrades the minimum gnumake used in the JDK 9 builds to 4.0, RE 
>>> must continue to build with the current official minimum, which is 
>>> 3.81, to catch that the official minimum still works, as in 
>>> JDK-8071651 <https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-8071651>.
>>>
>>> I've opened up a high priority enhancement request to get the 
>>> official gnumake updated, JDK-8072023 
>>> <https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-8072023>.
>>
>> Until we update gnumake for windows (JDK-8072023 
>> <https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-8072023>), issues like what 
>> Phil found with gnumake 3.81 should be fixed.
>
> I'm not really comfortable with letting go of support for GNU Make 
> 3.81. It's been around for a long time and was the latest stable 
> release for a long time when GNU Make didn't make much progress. While 
> Windows is special, since cygwin more easily pushes newer versions on 
> users, if this is indeed a problem with make 3.81 maybe we should try 
> to go to the bottom with it.
>
> What makes java.xml.bind so special that make 3.81 should barf on it, 
> but no other modules?
>
> /Magnus