Has configure changed behaviour??

[Tim Bell]

David:

We have not changed autoconf/configure for JDK 10 as we have been a bit 
busy with other things.

I thought we cured symlink versus real path problems with:
    JDK-8003317
    build-infra: Configure fails when current dir is part of a symlink
    https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-8003317

But maybe not.

If you cd to the real directory and then:

   echo $PWD               # to verify that it matches /bin/pwd
   mv build build.00       # to start with a clean slate
   bash ./common/bin/jib.sh configure -p linux-x64-debug

Does that work for you?

Tim

> Went to do my first build in a couple of months. Sitting in top-level of
> forest (with empty build directory - having deleted old config).
>
> bash ./common/bin/jib.sh configure -p linux-x64-debug
>
> yields:
>
> configure: Current directory is /scratch/dh198349/jdk10-hs.
> configure: Since this is not the source root, configure will output the
> configuration here
> configure: (as opposed to creating a configuration in
> <src_root>/build/<conf-name>).
> configure: However, this directory is not empty. This is not allowed,
> since it could
> configure: seriously mess up just about everything.
> configure: Try 'cd /export/users/dh198349/jdk10-hs' and restart configure
> configure: (or create a new empty directory and cd to it).
>
> ---
>
> That is very confusing:
>
> 1. what is a src_root and why does it think I would want to create
> <src_root>/build/<conf-name> instead of ./build/<conf-name>?
>
> 2. Why does it tell me to try to cd to the directory I am already in???
> ( /scratch is a softlink to /export/users)
>
> 3. I created a new directory (build) and cd'd into as suggested, which got:
>
> Error: java.io.FileNotFoundException:
> /export/users/dh198349/jdk10-hs/build/configure (No such file or directory)
>
> ---
>
> I'm sure it wasn't this hard to run configure before I went on vacation. :)
>
> How do I persuade configure to create <top-of-forest>/build/<conf-name> ?
>
> And does the "advice" configure gave me make any sense?
>
> Thanks,
> David