Can't build demos on Windows 8.1

[Erik Joelsson]

On 2015-03-03 14:35, Alexander Scherbatiy wrote:
> On 3/3/2015 3:46 PM, Magnus Ihse Bursie wrote:
>> On 2015-03-03 13:04, Alexander Scherbatiy wrote:
>>>  Hello,
>>>
>>>  I installed Windows 8.1 and built JDK 9.
>>>  When I call
>>>     > make demos
>>>  the whole JDK is rebuilt and demos are not created.
>>>
>>>  The same is for
>>>    > make java.desktop
>>>
>>>  I do not see this problem on my Windows 7.
>>>
>>>  Should I send any additional info or log files? I do not have idea 
>>> what can be helpful in this case.
>
>     Here is the log of the make demos command: 
> http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~alexsch/logs/build/win8_1/make_java_demos.txt
>     The demos are not built in my case.
>>
>> What happens then when you type "make java.desktop"? Is java.desktop 
>> not built?
>       It is built but longer than I expect. I tried to edit a cpp file 
> only.  Build process takes about 34 seconds on Windows 7 and about 2 
> minutes on Windows 8.1.
>         make java.desktop log file on Windows 7: 
> http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~alexsch/logs/build/win7/make_java_desktop.txt
>         make java.desktop log file on Windows 8.1: 
> http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~alexsch/logs/build/win8_1/make_java_desktop.txt
It seems like the charset generation in gensrc gets rebuilt every time 
in your Windows 8.1 configuration. We had a bug causing that for a while 
last week. What are you synced against?

/Erik
>>
>> Are you using an updated version of cygwin? 
>      I just installed the cygwin a week ago. I assume that it is the 
> last version of the cygwin.
>> Is "make" your cygwin make?
>     Yes.
> $ make --version
> GNU Make 4.1
> Built for x86_64-unknown-cygwin
> Copyright (C) 1988-2014 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
>
>  Thanks,
>  Alexandr.
>
>>
>> Without any logs (from e.g. configure and make) or more information, 
>> there's not much we can do to help.
>>
>> /Magnus
>