NoSuchMethodError: Matcher.quoteReplacement

[Andrew Hughes]

----- Original Message -----
> On 12/01/15 05:28 PM, Andrew Hughes wrote:
> > ----- Original Message -----
> >> I get the following error when I try to build 2.5.3:
> >>
> >> [...]
> >> /home/nottheoilrig/icedtea-2.5.3/generated.build/com/sun/corba/se/impl/logging/UtilSystemException.java
> >> An exception has occurred in the compiler (1.7.0_71_bootstrap). Please
> >> file a bug at the Java Developer Connection
> >> (http://java.sun.com/webapps/bugreport)  after checking the Bug Parade
> >> for duplicates. Include your program and the following diagnostic in
> >> your report.  Thank you.
> >> java.lang.NoSuchMethodError: method
> >> java.util.regex.Matcher.quoteReplacement with signature
> >> (Ljava.lang.String;)Ljava.lang.String; was not found.
> >> [...]
> >>
> >> Any idea how to resolve it?
> >> Can I provide any additional details?
> >> I downloaded the IcedTea 2.5.3 archive,
> >> ran ./configure and make.
> >>
> >> The following are lines from my config.log,
> >> are they helpful?
> >>
> >> [...]
> >> configure:11304: checking if java.util.regex.Matcher.quoteReplacement is
> >> missing
> >> configure:11354: result: yes
> >> [...]
> >> configure:11820: checking if the VM supports 1.7 bytecode
> >> javac: invalid source release: 7
> >> Usage: javac <options> <source files>
> >> use -help for a list of possible options
> >> configure:11850: result: no
> >> configure:11866: checking whether to disable the use of bootstrap tools
> >> for bootstrapping
> >> configure:11890: result: yes
> >> [...]
> >
> > It's difficult to say much without the full config.log and build log.
> 
> Thank you,
> 
> here is the config.log:
> http://nottheoilrig.com/java/201501120/config.log
> 
> and here is the build log:
> http://nottheoilrig.com/java/201501120/screenlog
> 
> Can I provide any additional details?
> 

This is sufficient, thanks. The main problem is your setup is just too old.
It's about time this machine was upgraded to wheezy, as squeeze is obsolete.
Moreover, wheezy already includes a build of 2.5.3 which will save you
the trouble: https://packages.debian.org/wheezy/openjdk-7-jdk

The actual problem is a bit convoluted. From the logs, I can see that a very
old version of gcj, 4.4, is being used to bootstrap the build. This is why
many features are found to be missing when your bootstrap JDK is tested during
configure.

The quoteReplacement method is missing in gcj 4.4, and there is a test to
work around this in configure; if you look for the rt-class-files part
of the build log, you will see it builds
openjdk-boot/jdk/src/share/classes/java/util/regex/Matcher.java before the
OpenJDK build begins, so a version with quoteReplacement is available.

All would be fine, thanks to this fix, but your javac (provided by gcj) is
too old to build Java 1.7 source code so the use of it to build is disabled.
It instead tries to use the javac it just built and fails because it needs
the missing method.

I think it may be possible to fix this by running javac with the patched
runtime on the bootclasspath. However, it's difficult to know without testing
and changing that may break builds with other JDKs. We test builds with gcj
the most, but not a version this old.

If you have https://packages.debian.org/squeeze/openjdk-6-jdk installed,
then you could try building with --with-jdk-home=/usr/lib/jvm/java-6-openjdk
to use that instead. However, I strongly recommend that you just upgrade
this system as the version of OpenJDK 6 is also outdated (1.13.5 is the latest)
and there are likely to be further missing system dependencies later in the
build that may cause problems, or lead to an incomplete JDK (for example,
NIO2 is likely to be incomplete without certain system calls being present).

Thanks,
-- 
Andrew :)

Free Java Software Engineer
Red Hat, Inc. (http://www.redhat.com)

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