Icedtea6 HEAD weirdness

[Dr Andrew John Hughes]

On 09:53 Thu 28 Oct     , Andrew Haley wrote:
> On 10/28/2010 09:24 AM, Gary Benson wrote:
> > 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.
> 
> Ah, thanks.  I think the problem may have been caused by an attempt to
> link statically with libstdc++.
> 
> Andrew.

As mentioned before, the OpenJDK build system is not great at handling successive builds.

In such situations, you can do make clean-icedtea-ecj; make
(or just delete openjdk.build-ecj from your build directory which is what the clean target does)
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Andrew :)

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