Failing Windows build

[Kelly O'Hair]

Sorry, but this email just creates questions for me:

What is ThreeTen repo?
What kind of Windows system? XP? 32bit? 64bit?
Using Visual Studio 2010? Express? Or Professional?
How was configure run?

The messages like "Images.gmk:573: recipe for target `/ASSEMBLY_EXCEPTION' failed" indicate an empty directory name variable.
Makes me wonder if you have some CYGWIN packages missing, but not sure which one.
We know we need more checks in configure for all the needed utilities.

-kto


On Jan 23, 2013, at 4:12 PM, Stephen Colebourne wrote:

> So my last attempt at building OpenJDK took a whole day to get
> something thanks to a buggy script.
> 
> I've pulled again (ThreeTen repo) and spent another whole evening
> watching the build churn incredibly slowly to a failure. Sorry if this
> seems ranty, but this "new build" just seems very unreliable and very
> slow to me:
> 
> make images NEWBUILD=true
> 
> Images.gmk:616: warning: ignoring old recipe for target `/release'
> /usr/bin/mkdir: missing operand
> Try `/usr/bin/mkdir --help' for more information.
> Images.gmk:573: recipe for target `/ASSEMBLY_EXCEPTION' failed
> make[2]: *** [/ASSEMBLY_EXCEPTION] Error 1
> make[2]: *** Waiting for unfinished jobs....
> /usr/bin/mkdir: missing operand
> Try `/usr/bin/mkdir --help' for more information.
> Images.gmk:573: recipe for target `/THIRD_PARTY_README' failed
> make[2]: *** [/THIRD_PARTY_README] Error 1
> /usr/bin/mkdir: missing operand
> Try `/usr/bin/mkdir --help' for more information.
> Images.gmk:573: recipe for target `/LICENSE' failed
> make[2]: *** [/LICENSE] Error 1
> BuildJdk.gmk:90: recipe for target `images' failed
> make[1]: *** [images] Error 2
> /cygdrive/c/dev/threeten/jdk8_310/ojdk//common/makefiles/Main.gmk:127:
> recipe for target `images-only' failed
> make: *** [images-only] Error 2
> 
> I would offer to re-run configure, but it takes too long to re-build
> and I want to go to bed.
> Stephen