JarReorder and ensuing grep failing on Windows

Brad R. Wetmore bradford.wetmore at oracle.com
Wed Mar 8 17:59:22 UTC 2017



On 3/8/2017 4:50 AM, Erik Joelsson wrote:
> It looks like you can still get grep 2.27-2 from cygwin. The easiest
> short term solution is to install that.

For the other problem that Erik mentioned, that worked for me.

Brad


> /Erik
>
>
> On 2017-03-08 13:48, Erik Joelsson wrote:
>> Hello again,
>>
>> I tried to build on a different version of Windows but with the latest
>> Cygwin and my build failed on the grep -e '\.class$' line. The problem
>> here is that the input to grep has \r\n line endings. The grep command
>> works if I pipe the file through "tr -d '\r'" first.
>>
>> We had a similar issue with the JDK 9 build recently which started
>> failing due to the latest version of grep in Cygwin suddenly becoming
>> very picky with line endings. This new grep was released recently. My
>> failing version is:
>>
>> $ grep --version
>> grep (GNU grep) 3.0
>> Packaged by Cygwin (3.0-2)
>> Copyright (C) 2017 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
>> License GPLv3+: GNU GPL version 3 or later
>> <http://gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html>.
>> This is free software: you are free to change and redistribute it.
>> There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law.
>>
>> Written by Mike Haertel and others, see
>> <http://git.sv.gnu.org/cgit/grep.git/tree/AUTHORS>.
>>
>>
>> /Erik
>>
>>
>> On 2017-03-08 09:14, Erik Joelsson wrote:
>>> Hello Jeff,
>>>
>>> First of all, just so to be sure, which source did you clone? From
>>> your description it sounds like it's JDK 8. If so you should be
>>> cloning either http://hg.openjdk.java.net/jdk8u/jdk8u/ or
>>> http://hg.openjdk.java.net/jdk8u/jdk8u-dev/
>>>
>>> I do not recognize your problem, but I have also never tried to build
>>> 8u on Windows 10. Unfortunately I don't have access to a (working)
>>> Windows 10 machine so can't try it myself. On the machines we build
>>> 8u on (Windows 2008R2, which is the server version of Windows 7) we
>>> have never seen this problem. We also have a pretty old version of
>>> Cygwin at this point.
>>>
>>> /Erik
>>>
>>> On 2017-03-07 20:47, Jeff Berkowitz wrote:
>>>> Hi, I'm attempting to build OpenJDK on Windows 10 using VS 2010
>>>> Developer
>>>> Edition. I'm working in cygwin and have reviewed the docs and
>>>> various blog
>>>> posts in an effort to "follow the rules".
>>>>
>>>> My difficulty: around line 268 of CreateJars.gmk, the makefile runs
>>>> a "grep
>>>> -e \.class ..." command intended to select lines from a list of jar
>>>> file
>>>> names contained in a file. The build fails because this grep exits
>>>> code 1
>>>> indicating that it matched no lines.
>>>>
>>>> Further investigation shows the file contains lines like this:
>>>>
>>>> com\oracle\net\Sdb
>>>>
>>>> With no ".class" extension on the file names.
>>>>
>>>> We tried clearing the global Windows property "Hide files with known
>>>> extensions" but no help. I put quick hack in the file to stick
>>>> ".class" on
>>>> the end of every line. The grep then matched some lines and exited
>>>> code 0,
>>>> but other errors ensued. I could explore these, but understanding
>>>> why none
>>>> of the filenames in the file were not matched (i.e. not in the expected
>>>> format) in the first place seems like a better approach.
>>>>
>>>> I'm continuing to work on this but any help would be appreciated.
>>>> Thanks so
>>>> much in advance.
>>>>
>>>> Jeff Berkowitz
>>>> New Relic.
>>>
>>
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