Cannot build new jdk on Windows after commit d29c78d

[Anirvan Sarkar]

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On Thu, 7 Jan 2021 at 8:19 AM, - <liangchenblue at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hello,
>
> I am a Windows 10 user trying to build OpenJDK HEAD
> <https://github.com/openjdk/jdk> so that I can try to fix a bug in
> javadoc.
>
> However, when I run make configure, my configure fails because it cannot
> detect a regular microsoft visual studio installation, which contains
> spaces in its directory name.
>
> I have tried to reinstall microsoft visual studio to a directory without
> spaces in name and pointed VSCOMMTOOLS system var to that directory. It
> succeeded but failed subsequently for other dependencies that have spaces
> in directory names.
>
> I have determined that the problem arises after this commit:
> d29c78da19ba78214efe9e7856cde30fdd9ba8ab
> <
> https://github.com/openjdk/jdk/commit/d29c78da19ba78214efe9e7856cde30fdd9ba8ab
> >
>
> When I checkout the commit before, 74be819
> <
> https://github.com/openjdk/jdk/commit/74be819088e13e244131cfb32d7d498ab213d075
> >,
> when the "fixpath.c" was used rather than "fixpath.sh", I can run "make
> configure" successfully, without failing for subsequent space problems.
>
> I think this problem lies within the "fixpath.sh" bash script.
> Unfortunately, I am no good at shell. I hope Magnus Ihse Bursie, who did
> the c to bash migration, can find a solution to this space in windows
> directory name failing fixpath problem.
>
> Best,
> liangchenblue at gmail.com
>
-- 
Anirvan