JDK build fails on Arch Linux

[Erik Joelsson]

This looks like https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-8237879

Workaround is to get an older version of GNU make (trivial to download 
and build yourself) and configure with MAKE=yourmake on the configure 
command line.

/Erik

On 2020-02-12 14:15, Ty Young wrote:
> Hi,
>
>
> Attempting to build any JDK version with a supported boot JDK results 
> in failure:
>
>
> Building target 'images' in configuration 'linux-x86_64-server-release'
> Warning: No SCM configuration present and no .src-rev
> make[3]: *** No rule to make target 
> '/home/ty/Downloads/panama-foreign-linkToNative/build/linux-x86_64-server-release/buildtools/langtools_tools_classes/_the.BUILD_TOOLS_LANGTOOLS.vardeps', 
> needed by 
> '/home/ty/Downloads/panama-foreign-linkToNative/build/linux-x86_64-server-release/buildtools/langtools_tools_classes/_the.BUILD_TOOLS_LANGTOOLS_batch'. 
> Stop.
> make[3]: *** Waiting for unfinished jobs....
> make[3]: *** No rule to make target 
> '/home/ty/Downloads/panama-foreign-linkToNative/build/linux-x86_64-server-release/make-support/vardeps/make/ReleaseFile.gmk/create-info-file.vardeps', 
> needed by 
> '/home/ty/Downloads/panama-foreign-linkToNative/build/linux-x86_64-server-release/jdk/release'. 
> Stop.
> make[2]: *** [make/Main.gmk:405: release-file] Error 2
> make[2]: *** Waiting for unfinished jobs....
> make[2]: *** [make/Main.gmk:70: buildtools-langtools] Error 2
> make[3]: *** No rule to make target 
> '/home/ty/Downloads/panama-foreign-linkToNative/build/linux-x86_64-server-release/make-support/vardeps/make/ModuleWrapper.gmk/java.base/ORDERED_CFG_VARIANTS.vardeps', 
> needed by 
> '/home/ty/Downloads/panama-foreign-linkToNative/build/linux-x86_64-server-release/support/modules_libs/java.base/jvm.cfg'. 
> Stop.
> make[3]: *** Waiting for unfinished jobs....
> make[2]: *** [make/Main.gmk:158: java.base-copy] Error 2
>
> ERROR: Build failed for target 'images' in configuration 
> 'linux-x86_64-server-release' (exit code 2)
>
>
> The exact commands used to compile are:
>
>
> "bash configure --disable-warnings-as-errors" and "make images"
>
>
> This used to work but after an update to *something* it no longer 
> builds. Given that I use Arch Linux(which uses newer software) it 
> could just be a bug introduced in some package and might be fixed 
> soon(TM) but I figure I'd hit up the this list to see if anyone can 
> confirm this.
>
>