windows: sporadic configure errors in cygwin

[Thomas Stüfe]

Hi Eric,

On Mon, Aug 21, 2017 at 2:27 PM, Erik Joelsson <erik.joelsson at oracle.com>
wrote:

> Hello Thomas,
>
> I have seen the error before, but I do not recognize it as intermittent.
> If you find any more information, we will be interested.
>
>
It went away as mysteriously as it came... I'll come back to you if it
returns.


> I usually run 64bit cygwin and find that to be slightly faster in general,
> but 32bit should work fine. The date you installed (as in exactly which
> versions of all the packages) likely has a bigger impact however.
>
>
Thanks! Thomas


> /Erik
>
>
>
> On 2017-08-11 13:00, Thomas Stüfe wrote:
>
>> Hi all,
>>
>> when building OpenJDK 10/hs on Windows, I get sporadic configure errors.
>> Usually one of two things, either:
>>
>> configure: The tested number of bits in the target (0) differs from the
>> number of bits expected to be found in the target (32).
>>
>> or the endianness test failing.
>>
>> Most of the time, just retrying the configure run works.
>>
>> I have the feeling this happens mostly when running several builds in
>> parallel. I am currently using 32bit cygwin.
>>
>> Does anyone see similar errors or maybe have a solution?
>>
>> Best Regards, Thomas
>>
>
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