IcedTea Build Failures using self as book JDK

[Andrew Hughes]

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> [+distro-pkg-dev]
> 
> On Mon, Mar 23, 2015 at 11:47 AM, Styx, Aaron (US SSA) <
> aaron.styx at baesystems.com> 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.

Yes, in fact, it's part of the build unless you explicitly turn it off.

> >
> > 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.

In my experience, building the JDK with itself is one of the best tests there is.
We've had builds that pass the TCK before, but aren't able to build themselves.

> >
> > Thanks,
> > Aaron
> >
> >
> 

-- 
Andrew :)

Free Java Software Engineer
Red Hat, Inc. (http://www.redhat.com)

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