IcedTea Build Failures using self as book JDK

[Andrew Haley]

On 03/23/2015 06:47 PM, Styx, Aaron (US SSA) wrote:

> I'm working on porting Java 7 (using IcedTea 2.5.4) to a new
> OS. I've completed the build once, but when I install what was built
> to use as the bootstrap JDK and start a fresh build , it fails with
> a seg fault when it gets into openjdk/jdk/make/com/sun/jmx running
> openjdk.build/bin/java.  Log file points to problematic frame of
> ~BufferBlob::flush_icache_stub
> 
> So my question is: should you be able to build IcedTea 2.5.4 using
> IcedTea 2.5.4 as the bootstrap JDK? I'm just trying to figure out if
> it's a problem I introduced in the port (or our OS), or if I'm
> trying to do something with it that it was never meant to do.
> 
> Just for reference, the first build of IcedTea seems to work and run
> just fine. All the demos and test programs work great. The only
> thing I haven't been able to with it is build itself.

I'd look at the C++ compiler.  It seems that HotSpot has been
miscompiled, or that there is a latent bug.

Andrew.