First build-infra push to jdk8 -- try out the new build system!

[SUE WEI]

Fredrik/Jim,

Thank you for the answers. It really is the path "/home/..." that 
confuses uncygdrive. When I open cygwin, I'm in my home dir /home/suwei, 
which is actually c:/cygwin/home/suwei, so I cd to 
/cygdrive/c/cygwin/home/suwei, although it's the same location. Then 
everything was fine running from there.

Thank you,
Sue

On 4/26/2012 12:37 PM, Fredrik Öhrström wrote:
> Aha! I think the reason is that uncygdrive only knows how to translate 
> from
> from /cygdrive/c/cygwin/home/suwei/.... to c:/cygwin/home/suwei/....
>
> It does not know that it should translate /home into c:/cygwin/home
>
> Pleasy try to use the explicit path /cygdrive/c/... instead of /home
>
> We should add support for /home to uncygdrive. And support for
> detecting which cygdrive prefix is actually used. In 99% of the case
> it is just /cygdrive, but it can be changed.
>
> //Fredrik
>
> Den torsdagen den 26:e april 2012 skrev SUE WEI:
>
>     I tried to use the new building system to build lambda jdk, but I
>     got the following error at the first step autoconf/configure:
>
>     ...
>     checking if uncygdrive can be created...
>     C:/cygwin/home/suwei/lambda-4-25/build/
>     windows-ia32-normal-clientANDserver-release/uncygdrive.exe
>     checking if uncygdrive.exe works... no
>     Microsoft (R) 32-bit C/C++ Optimizing Compiler Version
>     16.00.30319.01 <tel:16.00.30319.01> for 80x86
>     Copyright (C) Microsoft Corporation.  All rights reserved.
>
>     cl : Command line warning D9002 : ignoring unknown option
>     '/home/suwei/lambda-4-
>     25/common/src/uncygdrive.c'
>     cl : Command line error D8003 : missing source filename
>     configure: error: Uncygdrive did not work!
>
>     Did anyone happen to have the same problem, or know what I need to
>     do to solve the problem?
>
>     Thank you,
>     Sue
>
>
>     On 4/12/2012 2:47 AM, Magnus Ihse Bursie wrote:
>
>         The build-infra project [1] has been working for a while with
>         creating a new build system. The goals of the project include,
>         but are not limited to, improved build performance and
>         improved ease of use.
>
>         The first part of this project has now been pushed to the jdk8
>         master forest. This means that the new build system is
>         available for you to try out! The old build system is still
>         there, and if you want to continue to use it, you will notice
>         no difference (for now...).
>
>         But if you are interested in trying the new build system, we
>         welcome you to experiment with it! The basic operation is:
>          cd common/makefiles
>          ../autoconf/configure
>          make
>
>         More information is available in the new build README [2]. If
>         you want to try the new build system, please read it first.
>
>         Please note that the new build system is not yet complete. We
>         do not yet have full platform support, nor are all parts of
>         the old build converted (but then we fall back on the old
>         build system), and there are likely to be bugs. Most of all,
>         we need to have exposure on a wide range of different build
>         systems, since the reality is always so much messier than
>         you'd want to believe. :-) Please help us to resolve such
>         issues early by trying the new build system!
>
>         Any questions or discussions on the new build system should be
>         sent to build-dev at openjdk.java.net.
>
>         /Magnus
>
>         [1] http://openjdk.java.net/projects/build-infra/index.html
>         [2] http://openjdk.java.net/projects/build-infra/guide.html
>