mx build error

[Doug Simon]

> On 10 Nov 2016, at 21:43, Sidharth <sidbreaks at protonmail.com> wrote:
> 
> Hello All Graal Developers,
> 
> I am new to mailing lists so bear with me if I have made some kind of a mistake in posting the issue I am facing currently.
> 
> I have set JVMCI_VERSION_CHECK=ignore and am using java-9-openjdk-amd64 in a ubuntu 64 bit OS.

It appears as though that java-9 binary is too old. Keep in mind that jdk9 is still under development and so backwards compatibility with earlier builds is not guaranteed. As such, I recommend using the jdk 9 Early Access Releases from https://jdk9.java.net/download/ as of build 143.

-Doug