Bootstrapping icedtea7 with icedtea6

[Dr Andrew John Hughes]

On 10:48 Tue 10 May     , Omair Majid wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I recently ran into a problem building IcedTea7. It turns out that I 
> only had IcedTea6 installed on my machine, not gcj. A bootstrap build of 
> IcedTea7 failed with the following error:
> 
> /home/omajid/icedtea7/build/bootstrap/jdk1.6.0/bin/javac 
> -J-XX:ThreadStackSize=1536 -J-XX:-PrintVMOptions 
> -J-XX:+UnlockDiagnosticVMOptions -J-XX:-LogVMOutput -J-Xmx871m 
> -J-Xms128m -J-XX:PermSize=32m -J-XX:MaxPermSize=160m -g 
> -XDignore.symbol.file=true -source 7 -target 7 -encoding ascii 
> -classpath /home/omajid/icedtea7/build/bootstrap/jdk1.6.0/lib/rt.jar 
> -classpath 
> /home/omajid/icedtea7/build/openjdk.build-boot/corba/corba/classes 
> -classpath 
> /home/omajid/icedtea7/build/openjdk.build-boot/langtools/dist/lib/classes.jar 
> -sourcepath 
> /home/omajid/icedtea7/build/generated.build:../../../src/share/classes:/home/omajid/icedtea7/build/openjdk-boot/jdk/src/share/classes 
> -d /home/omajid/icedtea7/build/openjdk.build-boot/corba/classes 
> @/home/omajid/icedtea7/build/openjdk.build-boot/corba/tmp/sun/javax.transaction.xa/.classes.list
> javac: invalid source release: 7
> Usage: javac <options> <source files>
> use -help for a list of possible options
> make[5]: *** [.compile.classlist] Error 2
> 
> So IcedTea7 can not be bootstrapped with IcedTea6's javac. Looking at 
> the IT_CHECK_FOR_JDK macro, we use gcj, or if it can not be found, 
> icedtea6 for bootstrapping.
> 
> Would it be possible to disable bootstrapping icedtea7 with anything 
> other than gcj? The patch is attached, but I am still testing it.
> 
> Thanks,
> Omair

> diff -r 5ffa85bf891c acinclude.m4
> --- a/acinclude.m4	Thu May 05 01:17:33 2011 +0100
> +++ b/acinclude.m4	Tue May 10 10:00:06 2011 -0400
> @@ -1190,10 +1190,11 @@
>    if test -z "${SYSTEM_JDK_DIR}"; then
>      if test "x${enable_bootstrap}" = "xyes"; then
>        BOOTSTRAP_VMS="/usr/lib/jvm/java-gcj /usr/lib/jvm/gcj-jdk /usr/lib/jvm/cacao";
> +      VMS=${BOOTSTRAP_VMS}
> +    else
> +      VMS="/usr/lib/jvm/java-openjdk /usr/lib/jvm/icedtea6 /usr/lib/jvm/java-6-openjdk /usr/lib/jvm/openjdk /usr/lib/jvm/java-icedtea"
>      fi
> -    for dir in ${BOOTSTRAP_VMS} /usr/lib/jvm/java-openjdk \
> -    	       /usr/lib/jvm/icedtea6 /usr/lib/jvm/java-6-openjdk \
> -	       /usr/lib/jvm/openjdk /usr/lib/jvm/java-icedtea ; do
> +    for dir in ${VMS} ; do
>         if test -d $dir; then
>           SYSTEM_JDK_DIR=$dir
>  	 break


I'd prefer we fixed the issues that stop it working.  I'll look into this as something for 1.14.
-- 
Andrew :)

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