bash configure fails on missing javah

[Jonathan Gibbons]

Note the corollary is that this impacts when javac can use recent 
language features.  i.e. in order to build the "interim javac", the  
javac source code must be compatible with the "boot JDK". There's 
nothing inherently new in that, but the new release schedule is 
definitely going to have an impact here.

-- Jon


On 1/3/18 12:12 AM, Erik Joelsson wrote:
> The build hasn't used javah in a long time, so the configure check for 
> it is just a left over that we forgot to clean up. It should certainly 
> be removed and we will be forced to do it once we switch to JDK 10 as 
> boot jdk for 11.
>
> Note though that we will not switch to JDK 10 as boot for 11 until we 
> have an actual release of 10. Until then, the boot JDK for the 
> development of 11 will remain as 9. In the past, this interim 
> situation was pretty limited in time so we rarely had to deal with it. 
> With the new release schedule, we are going to be in this situation a 
> lot more, so the build documentation needs to be updated to explain this.
>
> /Erik
>
>
> On 2018-01-03 05:05, Martin Buchholz wrote:
>> I agree configure should not fail if javah is not found.  A high quality
>> configure test would first check if javac -h works, then fall back to 
>> javah
>> if that works, regardless of the boot jdk's version.
>>
>> On Tue, Jan 2, 2018 at 6:33 AM, Nir Lisker <nlisker at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> I'm trying to build OpenJDK 11 as instructed here:
>>> http://hg.openjdk.java.net/jdk/jdk/raw-file/tip/doc/building.html.
>>>
>>> When executing `bash configure
>>> --with-import-modules=jfx_path\rt\build\modular-sdk`
>>> (I've build JavaFX) the build fails:
>>>
>>> checking for java in Boot JDK... ok
>>> checking for javac in Boot JDK... ok
>>> checking for javah in Boot JDK... not found
>>> configure: Your Boot JDK seems broken. This might be fixed by 
>>> explicitly
>>> setting --with-boot-jdk
>>> configure: error: Could not find javah in the Boot JDK
>>> configure exiting with result code 1
>>>
>>> The boot JDK is 10, which does not have javah anymore, so it is no
>>> surprise. I could point boot JDK to a previous version, but I don't 
>>> think I
>>> should need to. What I should do?
>>>
>>> Nir
>>>
>