Icedtea6 HEAD weirdness

[Gary Benson]

Andrew Haley wrote:
> Anyone else seeing this?
> 
> make[4]: stat: /local/icedtea6/openjdk.build-ecj/hotspot/outputdir/linux_amd64_compiler2/product/libjvm.so: Too many levels of symbolic links
> make[4]: *** No rule to make target `/local/icedtea6/openjdk.build-ecj/hotspot/outputdir/linux_amd64_compiler2/product/libjvm.so', needed by `/local/icedtea6/openjdk.build-ecj/hotspot/import/jre/lib/amd64/server/libjvm.so'.  Stop.
> make[4]: Leaving directory `/local/icedtea6/openjdk-ecj/hotspot/make'
> make[3]: *** [export_product] Error 2
> make[3]: Leaving directory `/local/icedtea6/openjdk-ecj/hotspot/make'
> make[2]: *** [hotspot-build] Error 2
> make[2]: Leaving directory `/local/icedtea6/openjdk-ecj'
> make[1]: *** [build_product_image] Error 2
> make[1]: Leaving directory `/local/icedtea6/openjdk-ecj'
> make: *** [stamps/icedtea-ecj.stamp] Error 2
> happy:icedtea6 $ ls -l /local/icedtea6/openjdk.build-ecj/hotspot/outputdir/linux_amd64_compiler2/product/libjvm.so
> lrwxrwxrwx. 1 aph aph 9 2010-10-27 18:04 /local/icedtea6/openjdk.build-ecj/hotspot/outputdir/linux_amd64_compiler2/product/libjvm.so -> libjvm.so

This error happens when you try to rebuild after a build failed
linking libjvm.so.  For some reason subsequent builds skip the
broken bit.  The only way I've found to get past this is to blow
away the tree and rebuild so you can see what the original error
was.

Cheers,
Gary

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