jdk9 build failure in ubuntu16.10

[David Holmes]

On 6/12/2016 4:55 PM, Prasanta Sadhukhan wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I was trying to build jdk9 workspace checked out today on ubuntu16.10
> but am encountering a build problem. I did "configure --enable-debug
> --disable-warnings-as-errors" followed by "make"
> Would like to know if it is a known issue?

Not sure it is known, but you're using gcc 6 which is a bit ahead of the 
official compilers.

David

> Excerpts of build failure is: (Attached is the configure log and full
> build log)
>
> ERROR: Build failed for target 'default (exploded-image)' in
> configuration 'linux-x86_64-normal-server-fastdebug' (exit code 2)
> === Output from failing command(s) repeated here ===
> * For target hotspot_variant-server_libjvm_gtest_objs_logTestFixture.o:
> In file included from
> /export/jdk9/client/test/fmw/gtest/include/gtest/gtest.h:54:0,
>                  from
> /export/jdk9/client/hotspot/test/native/unittest.hpp:31,
>                  from
> /export/jdk9/client/hotspot/test/native/logging/logTestFixture.hpp:24,
>                  from
> /export/jdk9/client/hotspot/test/native/logging/logTestFixture.cpp:25:
> /usr/include/c++/6/limits:320:11: error: macro "min" requires 2
> arguments, but only 1 given
>        min() _GLIBCXX_USE_NOEXCEPT { return _Tp(); }
>            ^
> /usr/include/c++/6/limits:324:11: error: macro "max" requires 2
> arguments, but only 1 given
>        max() _GLIBCXX_USE_NOEXCEPT { return _Tp(); }
>            ^
> /usr/include/c++/6/limits:387:11: error: macro "min" requires 2
> arguments, but only 1 given
>        min() _GLIBCXX_USE_NOEXCEPT { return false; }
>    ... (rest of output omitted)
> === End of repeated output ===
> === Make failure sequence repeated here ===
> lib/CompileGtest.gmk:57: recipe for target
> '/export/jdk9/client/build/linux-x86_64-normal-server-fastdebug/hotspot/variant-server/libjvm/gtest/objs/logTestFixture.o'
> failed
> BuildHotspot.gmk:41: recipe for target 'variant-server-libs' failed
>
> Regards
> Prasanta