Cannot build new jdk on Windows after commit d29c78d

[Yasumasa Suenaga]

Hi,

I use WSL 1 to build OpenJDK on Windows 10.
However, it has a problem in fixpath.sh, so I've posted PR for it.

   https://github.com/openjdk/jdk/pull/1889

You can build OpenJDK if you apply it.


Thanks,

Yasumasa


On 2021/01/08 0:20, Anirvan Sarkar wrote:
> ++ build-dev
> 
> 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
>>