Building OpenJDK 1.8 on Solaris SPARC 10 fails with compiler error

[David Holmes]

Hi Matthias,

Disabling "warnings are errors" may let you compile okay, perhaps even 
with 12.6. But you're really on your own at that point. There may be 
other issues beyond simple warnings.

Good luck. :)

David

On 23/05/2019 7:31 pm, Matthias Apitz wrote:
> 
> Hello David,
> 
> Thanks for the quick reply and hints.
> 
> El día jueves, mayo 23, 2019 a las 07:19:21p. m. +1000, David Holmes escribió:
> 
>>> Based on the source openjdk-8u40-src-b25-10_feb_2015.zip we do the following steps:
>>
>> Why such old sources? You are better off getting the latest released 8u
>> source.
> 
> I was told that this was the latest version, we will look better.
> 
>> You can't build JDK 8u with Solaris Studio 12.6, it's too recent and
>> will complain about too many issues in the code. The supported 8u
>> compiler is 12.1
>>
>> https://wiki.openjdk.java.net/display/Build/Supported+Build+Platforms
> 
> Seems that the latest available version on oracle.com is 12.3. We
> will give this a try.
> 
> Re/ the 12.6 I helped me with this small change:
> 
> diff -c hotspot/make/solaris/makefiles/adlc.make*
> *** hotspot/make/solaris/makefiles/adlc.make    Thu May 23 11:17:53 2019
> --- hotspot/make/solaris/makefiles/adlc.make.orig       Wed Feb 11
> 02:08:09 2015
> ***************
> *** 74,80 ****
>    # CFLAGS_WARN holds compiler options to suppress/enable warnings.
>    # Compiler warnings are treated as errors
>    ifeq ($(shell expr $(COMPILER_REV_NUMERIC) \>= 509), 1)
> !   CFLAGS_WARN = +w
>    endif
>    CFLAGS += $(CFLAGS_WARN)
>    
> --- 74,80 ----
>    # CFLAGS_WARN holds compiler options to suppress/enable warnings.
>    # Compiler warnings are treated as errors
>    ifeq ($(shell expr $(COMPILER_REV_NUMERIC) \>= 509), 1)
> !   CFLAGS_WARN = +w -errwarn
>    endif
>    CFLAGS += $(CFLAGS_WARN)
> 
> This let compile the source in question, but we stop here and move over
> to 12.3
> 
> Thanks again
> 
> 	matthias
> 
> 
>