JDK 8 Build Issue(s)

[David Buck]

Hi Max!

Not much to go on here [0]. For what it's worth, I was able to clone 
8u-dev and build it on Mint 18.3 Cinnamon (w/ JDK 7u80 as the boot JDK) 
without any issues. The Mint VM image I used was new and the only thing 
I did before building the JDK was run an apt-get update/upgrade cycle 
and apt-get install g++).

I would also point out that Mint is not one of the platforms officialy 
supported by Oracle for building JDK 8 [1]. While Mint and other 
Ubuntu-based systems tend to work pretty well for building OpenJDK, you 
might have an easier time starting off by building on something closer 
to what we develop and test on.

Cheers,
-Buck

[0] http://www.catb.org/esr/faqs/smart-questions.html

[1] https://wiki.openjdk.java.net/display/Build/Supported+Build+Platforms

On 2018/07/22 0:17, mr rupplin wrote:
> I get a cannot compile for a "generic linux" when trying to build OpenJDK 8 on Mint.
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Mr. Rupplin
> 
> /sr software dev
>