jdk8 makefile changes

[David Holmes]

On 10/07/2012 10:59 AM, Kumar Srinivasan wrote:
> nOn 7/9/2012 5:20 PM, David Holmes wrote:
>> On 10/07/2012 9:51 AM, Kumar Srinivasan wrote:
>>> On windows, I see a failure when building hotspot, as as follows.
>>> Kumar
>>>
>>> link.exe /SAFESEH /manifest kernel32.lib user32.lib gdi32.lib
>>> winspool.lib codlg32.lib advapi32.lib shell32.lib ole32.lib
>>> oleaut32.lib uuid.lib
>>> Wsock32.lib winmm.lib /nologo /machine:I386 /opt:REF /opt:ICF,8 /map
>>> /debug
>>> psapi.lib /subystem:console /out:adlc.exe main.obj adlparse.obj
>>> archDesc.obj arena.obj
>>> dfa.ob dict2.obj filebuff.obj forms.obj formsopt.obj formssel.obj
>>> opcodes.obj
>>> output_.obj output_h.obj
>>> /usr/bin/link: extra operand `kernel32.lib'
>>
>> It looks like it is trying to run the GNU link command instead of the
>> Visual Studio one.
> one other clue, VS10 is not in its standard install location, setting
> the path to the VS's link
> does not help, so autoconf has inferred the wrong path it seems.

config.log will tell you what configure did and did not do.

I don't know if Windows builds are supposed to work yet :) But again 
hotspot is largely untouched so however you had to set things up to 
build hotspot before, you will likely still need to do now.

David
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> Kumar
>
>
>>
>> David
>> -----
>>
>>
>>> Try `/usr/bin/link --help' for more information.
>>> NMAKE : fatal error U1077:
>>> 'C:\WORKSP~1\JDK8-B~1\build\WINDOW~1\UNCYGD~1.EXE' :
>>> return code '0x1'
>>> Stop.
>>> NMAKE : fatal error U1077: 'cd' : return code '0x2'
>>> Stop.
>>> NMAKE : fatal error U1077: '"C:\Program Files\MSVS10\VC\BIN\nmake.EXE"'
>>> : retur
>>> code '0x2'
>>> Stop.
>>> make[2]: *** [generic_build2] Error 2
>>> make[1]: *** [product] Error 2
>>> make: *** [hotspot-only] Error 2
>>>> The jdk8/build forest has been in sync for a few days, so anyone
>>>> willing to try the new build system with OpenJDK 8, please
>>>> follow these instructions:
>>>>
>>>> hg clone http://hg.openjdk.java.net/jdk8/build jdk8-build
>>>> cd jdk8-build
>>>> sh ./get_source.sh
>>>> cd common/makefiles
>>>> ../autoconf/configure
>>>> make images
>>>>
>>>> Let us know what works, what doesn't.
>>>>
>>>> Many of us will be concentrating on binary comparisons over the next
>>>> few days to insure that we are building
>>>> everything we did before, and the same content.
>>>>
>>>> -kto
>>>>
>>>> On Jul 3, 2012, at 11:38 AM, Kelly O'Hair wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> Heads up...
>>>>>
>>>>> We expect to do a sync up of the jdk8/build forest with the latest in
>>>>> the build-infra forest in the next few days.
>>>>>
>>>>> As the new build-infra project starts getting more solid and we
>>>>> contemplate when we can switch
>>>>> the default to building with the new build-infra Makefiles (we don't
>>>>> know exactly when yet).
>>>>>
>>>>> **** IMPORTANT NOTICE ****
>>>>> It will be important that *anyone* making *any* changes to the jdk8
>>>>> Makefiles keep the build-dev
>>>>> or build-infra mailing lists informed.
>>>>> For a period of time we need to maintain two separate build
>>>>> mechanisms, and we want to make sure
>>>>> that both build the same thing.
>>>>> The hotspot repository is the one exception where we don't have two
>>>>> sets of makefiles, but we still
>>>>> would like to know when anyone is changing the makefiles or anything
>>>>> to do with the build process.
>>>>> *****************************
>>>>>
>>>>> We will soon be running both builds and doing comparisons of the
>>>>> resulting j2sdk-image files from
>>>>> both to insure we match. So if we detect differences we will be
>>>>> tracking down how those differences
>>>>> happened (that's a hint that we will be watching :^).
>>>>>
>>>>> More information on the new build-infra Makefiles can be found at:
>>>>> http://openjdk.java.net/projects/build-infra/
>>>>>
>>>>> User Guide is at:
>>>>> http://openjdk.java.net/projects/build-infra/guide.html
>>>>>
>>>>> Some preliminary timings for building the product image (effectively,
>>>>> build/j2sdk-image/):
>>>>> OLD NEW build-infra times (All estimates, similar VMs/Zones)
>>>>> linux_i586 (21m 59s) (08m 13s)
>>>>> linux_x64 (13m 34s) (07m 04s)
>>>>> solaris_i586 (26m 14s) (11m 31s)
>>>>> solaris_sparc (54m 02s) (28m 21s)
>>>>> windows_i586 (55m 49s) (32m 22s) (old used MKS, build-infra only uses
>>>>> CYGWIN)
>>>>> windows_x64 (36m 36s) (23m 50s) " " "
>>>>>
>>>>> Notes:
>>>>> * Machines with more processors will reduce the build time for
>>>>> build-infra builds, less so with the old Makefiles.
>>>>> * Always use local disk or /tmp (all above timings use /tmp, always
>>>>> local disk)
>>>>> * Above uses VMs for Windows and Linux, raw hardware would be faster
>>>>> * Use of ccache can sometimes speed things up, but can also skew the
>>>>> timings,
>>>>> in the above measurements OLD used ccache, NEW did not.
>>>>>
>>>>> -kto
>>>
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