RFR(S): 8046818: Hotspot build system looking for sdt.h in the wrong place

David Holmes david.holmes at oracle.com
Thu Jul 3 12:03:13 UTC 2014


Looks ok.

David

On 3/07/2014 10:32 AM, Mikael Vidstedt wrote:
>
> Please review the below fix.
>
> When using a compiler which does not use the default "/" as system root
> the system headers are not picked up from /usr/include. This means that
> looking for sdt.h in /usr/include is not correct - even if the machine
> in question has that header file available it may still fail at compile
> time if the compiler doesn't have sdt.h in its system root.
>
> gcc has a useful option (-print-sysroot) which prints the system root
> being used. I have not found any equivalent option for clang, so this
> fix will unfortunately not solve this problem when using clang. When we
> rewrite the Hotspot build system to use the new top level build system
> this can be solved in a better way.
>
> Bug: https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-8046818
> Webrev:
> http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~mikael/webrevs/8046818/webrev.00/webrev/
>
> Cheers,
> Mikael
>


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