strange reconfigure issue

[David Holmes]

On 19/04/2019 7:59 pm, Aleksey Shipilev wrote:
> On 4/19/19 11:54 AM, Maurizio Cimadamore wrote:
>> Hi,
>> after Panama merged with upstream yesterday, many developers reported an issue with make reconfigure
>> which fails with this message:
>>
>> configure: Current directory is <USER_DIR>
>> configure: Since this is not the source root, configure will output the configuration here
>> configure: (as opposed to creating a configuration in <src_root>/build/<conf-name>).
>> configure: However, this directory is not empty. This is not allowed, since it could
>> configure: seriously mess up just about everything.
>>
>> This message seems bogus because we're just running make reconfigure from the JDK top dir, but for
>> some reason the makefile is going and look in our home folders, and then failing to take action
>> (thankfully!).
>>
>> To resolve the issue a full 'sh configure' was necessary. In my case I believe I also needed to
>> close the terminal window and start over, but it's possible that's placebo.
>>
>> After the remediation steps, even `make reconfigure` works as expected.
>>
>> Was there a recent change (e.g. in the last week or so) introduced in this area which might have
>> caused a lingering issue?
> 
> I *think* it happened after this fix:
>    https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-8221907

Yep. After that fix is applied a reconfigure won't work. So you need to 
run configure again.

David

> In all cases I encountered, full configure helped. No need to restart terminals or such.


> -Aleksey
>