Shared Libraries - Missing Source .o files

[Thomas Fitzsimmons]

Michael Franz wrote:
> My build keeps failing on the following section of the build.
> $(SHARED_OBJECT_FILES):
>         mkdir -p bootstrap/jdk1.7.0/jre/lib/$(INSTALL_ARCH_DIR)
>         for shared_object in $(SHARED_OBJECT_FILES) ; \
>         do \
>           echo | $(CC) $(CFLAGS) -fpic -shared \
>             -o $$shared_object \
>             -Wl,-soname,$$shared_object -xc - ; \
>         done
> 
> It fails (beside the fact that the command does not work on OS X). 
>  Where are the files that are being used to create the shared libraries 
> coming from?  What part of the build process is not working?

This rule builds empty stub shared object files that the OpenJDK build 
used to expect in the bootstrap JDK.  A quick grep through openjdk tells 
me that these are no longer needed so we should be able to just remove 
SHARED_OBJECT_FILES and related targets.  Lillian can you check this on 
Fedora?

Tom