Building without Solaris directory on Linux

[Frieder Berthold]

Not the answers I hoped for but they help me nonetheless, thank you both!

2015-11-11 12:10 GMT+01:00 Erik Joelsson <erik.joelsson at oracle.com>:

> Hello Frieder,
>
> No, unfortunately not. The way the build works, you need to build
> everything even if you only need profile1. The compact profiles are only
> considered at the last step where images are created. Later in jdk9, when
> modules are properly implemented, it might be possible to build only a
> limited set of jmods and link them together yourself to an image, but it
> will not be straightforward to do so.
>
> Note that the source file you had problems with in jdk8 is still part of
> java.base in jdk9, so you can't do without it anyway.
>
> /Erik
>
>
> On 2015-11-11 11:42, Frieder Berthold wrote:
>
>> Thanks for your fast answer!
>>
>> This means in jdk8 there is no way to build only a smaller subset of the
>> jdk?
>> But in jdk9 there is?
>>
>> 2015-11-11 11:18 GMT+01:00 Volker Simonis <volker.simonis at gmail.com>:
>>
>> On Wed, Nov 11, 2015 at 11:00 AM, Frieder Berthold
>>> <berthold.frieder at googlemail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Hello to all,
>>>>
>>>> I am new in buiding OpenJDK and hope, that this is the right list for my
>>>> problem.
>>>>
>>>> To get a small JVM and rt.jar I try to build OpenJDK 8 with the small
>>>>
>>> musl
>>>
>>>> libc (http://www.musl-libc.org/) instead of using the standard gnu
>>>> libc,
>>>> yet I do not get it to build correctly.
>>>>
>>>> My system: ubuntu 14.04 64bit
>>>>
>>>> OpenJDK: OpenJDK 8 cloned from http://hg.openjdk.java.net/jdk8/jdk8/
>>>>
>>>> My Problem: The following headers (which musl does not provide) cannot
>>>> be
>>>> found while building the solaris-part
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> jdk8/jdk/src/solaris/native/java/net/PlainDatagramSocketImpl.c:38:24:
>>>>
>>> fatal
>>>
>>>> error:        sys/sysctl.h: No such file or directory
>>>>
>>>> and
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> jdk8/jdk/src/solaris/native/java/net/NetworkInterface.c:50:25:
>>>> fatal error: bits/ioctls.h: No such file or directory
>>>>
>>>> My Question: Even though I got a Linux (which is stated after the
>>>>
>>> configure
>>>
>>>> process) it tries to build the sources in the solaris directory. Is this
>>>> necessary or is there a way to prevent this?
>>>>
>>> For jdk8, jdk/src/solaris actually contains all the common "unix"
>>> sources so you indeed have to compile it. In jdk8, the linux directory
>>> only contains some man-pages but no real source code.
>>>
>>> In jdk9 the sources have been reordered and now there's a "unix"
>>> directory for shared unix sources and linux, solaris, aix, etc.
>>> directories for platform dependent stuff.
>>>
>>> Even deeper into this matter:
>>>> I only need the profile compact1 for the Linux OS, are there switches
>>>> for
>>>> the configure step to achieve this?
>>>>
>>>> Thank You in advance for any help!
>>>> Frieder
>>>>
>>>
>