configure - gcc >4.6 needed for JDK9 build

[Mike Burton]

When I do `bash configure —disable-gtest` it errors with:
unrecognised options: —disable-gtest

Mike


> On 26 Jan 2017, at 15:36, Magnus Ihse Bursie <magnus.ihse.bursie at oracle.com> wrote:
> 
> This is an issue with gtest, which is a bit special.
> 
> If you use --disable-gtest with configure, can you build successfully then?
> 
> /Magnus
> 
>> 25 jan. 2017 kl. 09:34 skrev Mike Burton <mikeb at mycosystems.co.uk>:
>> 
>> 
>>>> On 24 Jan 2017, at 21:25, Kim Barrett <kim.barrett at oracle.com> wrote:
>>>> 
>>>> On Jan 23, 2017, at 5:34 AM, Mike Burton <mikeb at mycosystems.co.uk> wrote:
>>>> 
>>>> Hello,
>>>> 
>>>> I ran an OpenJDK Hack Day session on Saturday, at which some people got stuck on lost a fair bit of time, failing to build JDK9. Then we found that updating gcc from 4.6 to 4.8 fixed it.
>>>> Could the `configure` script be updated (by running get-source.sh) so as to check for minimum required gcc version?
>>>> 
>>>> Best Regards
>>>> 
>>>> Mike Burton
>>> 
>>> I don’t think there is supposed to be a requirement for gcc > 4.6 in JDK 9.  I’m pretty
>>> sure there are folks still building with older versions.  It would be helpful to know the
>>> details of the platform and the error messages that led to the conclusion that something
>>> more recent was required.
>> 
>> Platform is Ubuntu 14.04, error message below:
>> 
>> === Output from failing command(s) repeated here ===
>> * For target hotspot_variant-server_libjvm_gtest_objs_BUILD_GTEST_LIBJVM_link:
>> /usr/bin/ld: /usr/lib/gcc/x86_64-linux-gnu/4.6/libstdc++.a(ctype.o): relocation R_X86_64_32S against `vtable for std::ctype<wchar_t>' can not be used when making a shared object; recompile with -fPIC
>> /usr/lib/gcc/x86_64-linux-gnu/4.6/libstdc++.a: could not read symbols: Bad value
>> collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
>> === End of repeated output ===
>> 
>> 
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