RFR: JDK-8160926: FLAGS_COMPILER_CHECK_ARGUMENTS doesn't handle cross-compilation
Magnus Ihse Bursie
magnus.ihse.bursie at oracle.com
Tue Feb 5 09:12:50 UTC 2019
On 2019-02-05 01:36, Erik Joelsson wrote:
> Please review this fix for configure flags checking. The macros for
> checking compiler capabilities were not able to handle cross
> compilation very well. With this fix, they accept an optional PREFIX
> argument, instructing them to check the compiler with the given prefix
> (which is either empty or BUILD_). Using this, I have moved all calls
> to the macros into BUILD/TARGET specific macro bodies so that we
> correctly check both the build and target compilers for valid flags.
>
> I have verified by running cross compilation configurations of
> linux-aarch64 using both the same and different versions of GCC for
> build and target, and compared the output in both configure.log and
> the spec files. I've also run tier1 (equivalent to submission forest)
> and a COMPARE_BUILD run on Oracle's main platforms as well.
>
> The change unfortunately required adding another prefix type format
> since our compiler/tool variables use <empty>/BUILD_ as prefix and the
> existing formats were TARGET_/BUILD_ and <empty>/OPENJDK_TARGET_. I
> think we could benefit greatly from unifying these.
>
> I've also touched some white space nearby my changes as well as fixed
> a trivial error message about "linker" not being found by quoting the
> LINKER_NAME assignment in toolchain.m4.
>
> Bug: https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-8160926
>
> Webrev: http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~erikj/8160926/webrev.01
Looks good. Thanks for finally getting this fixed.
A related problem, that perhaps should be fixed at the same time, is
that we need to add -Werror to provoke an actual warning message that
fails. This has been done manually in some (but not all) cases where we
call FLAGS_COMPILER_CHECK_ARGUMENTS. It might depend on version of gcc,
or what kind of options we are testing -- I don't remember the detail.
But I think it would be safe, and prudent, to let
FLAGS_COMPILER_CHECK_ARGUMENTS automatically add
$CFLAGS_WARNINGS_ARE_ERRORS to the flag tested. (Assuming that the
definition of CFLAGS_WARNINGS_ARE_ERRORS is available at the time of
first call to FLAGS_COMPILER_CHECK_ARGUMENTS, but I think it is, or
rather, should be.)
/Magnus
> /Erik
>
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