Building jdk on OS/X

[David Holmes]

Redirecting to the build-dev alias.

On 15/08/2021 1:22 am, Michael Hall wrote:
> Seeing the recent comments on build problems I was curious enough to try building on OS/X.
> I followed the directions here…
> https://hg.openjdk.java.net/jdk-updates/jdk9u/raw-file/tip/common/doc/building.html <https://hg.openjdk.java.net/jdk-updates/jdk9u/raw-file/tip/common/doc/building.html>
> I get errors like…
> 
> === Output from failing command(s) repeated here ===
> * For target buildtools_buildtools_hotspot_tools_classes__the.BUILD_TOOLS_HOTSPOT_batch:
> warning: [path] bad path element "/Library/Frameworks/BSF4ooRexx.framework/Classes/bsf4ooRexx-v641-20190830-bin.jar": no such file or directory
> warning: [path] bad path element "/Applications/OpenOffice.app/Contents/program/classes/ridl.jar": no such file or directory
> warning: [path] bad path element "/Applications/OpenOffice.app/Contents/program/classes/jurt.jar": no such file or directory
> warning: [path] bad path element "/Applications/OpenOffice.app/Contents/program/classes/juh.jar": no such file or directory
> warning: [path] bad path element "/Applications/OpenOffice.app/Contents/program/classes/unoil.jar": no such file or directory
> warning: [path] bad path element "/Applications/OpenOffice.app/Contents/program": no such file or directory
> warning: [path] bad path element "/Library/Frameworks/BSF4ooRexx.framework/Classes/bsf4ooRexx-v641-20191126-bin.jar": no such file or directory
> error: warnings found and -Werror specified
> 1 error
> 7 warnings

I would not expect any of the Java based build tools to be picking up 
any default classpath elements from the environment. But I suppose this 
could be a problem if your boot JDK actually refers to wrapper scripts 
that do set such a classpath. I would need to see more details from the 
build log as to what was actually being executed.

Cheers,
David

> First try I moved the concerned application (OpenOffice.app) and framework (BSF4ooRexx.framework) out of the way. The error persisted. Seeing that make clean removed make but not config files I removed the jdk directory and cloned the repository again and the error persisted.
> After spending some time trying to determine how to change compile options to eliminate the 'warnings as error' it occurred to me that these are not compile errors and no compiler option change will probably be a fix.
> 
> My questions are…
> 
> Where is these files having been present persisted?
> 
> Why does building the jdk have anything to do with them?
>