Building open jdk 8 from source fails

[Stanislav Baiduzhyi]

On Friday 02 January 2015 17:24:25 lee json wrote:
> I following the instruction at
> openjdk.java.net/projects/build-infra/guide.html
> 
> with commands `configure` and `make (all)`
> 
> `configure` goes well, but `make` or `make all` fails with error like
> paste.debian.net/138889/
> 
> And there is no differences with JAVA_HOME set or unset.
> 
> How to fix this problem?
> 
> Environment: debian 8.0, hg 3.1, the latest changeset is
> 941:1773f1fd0fac with date on Tue Mar 04 11:50:40 2014 -0800

Looks like it does not like diamond operators. Are you sure you're using jdk 7 
to build openjdk 8?

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Regards,
    Stas