Build error with javac Main not being found when building java.transaction module on Mac OS X

[Martijn Verburg]

Hi all,

Apologies if this has already been reported before!

Build from HEAD (jdk9) today I get the following error running make clean
images:

make clean images
Cleaning hotspot build artifacts ... done
Cleaning jdk build artifacts ... done
Cleaning bootcycle-build build artifacts ... done
Cleaning test build artifacts ... done
Cleaning buildtools build artifacts ... done
Cleaning support build artifacts ... done
Cleaning images build artifacts ... done
Cleaning make-support build artifacts ... done
Cleaned all build artifacts.
Building OpenJDK for target 'clean images' in configuration
'macosx-x86_64-normal-server-release'

Compiling 5 files for BUILD_GENMODULESLIST
Compiling 8 files for BUILD_TOOLS_LANGTOOLS
Compiling 3 files for java.transaction
Error: Could not find or load main class com.sun.tools.javac.Main
make[3]: ***
[/Users/karianna/Documents/workspace/AdoptOpenJDK_projects/jdk9/build/macosx-x86_64-normal-server-release/jdk/modules/java.transaction/_the.java.transaction_batch]
Error 1
make[2]: *** [java.transaction-java] Error 2
make[2]: *** Waiting for unfinished jobs....

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I have the following configuration and have also tried using JDK 9 b44 as
the boot JDK :

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The existing configuration has been successfully updated in
/Users/karianna/Documents/workspace/AdoptOpenJDK_projects/jdk9/build/macosx-x86_64-normal-server-release
using configure arguments
'--with-boot-jdk=/Library/Java/JavaVirtualMachines/jdk1.8.0_31.jdk/Contents/Home/'.

Configuration summary:
* Debug level:    release
* HS debug level: product
* JDK variant:    normal
* JVM variants:   server
* OpenJDK target: OS: macosx, CPU architecture: x86, address length: 64

Tools summary:
* Boot JDK:       java version "1.8.0_31" Java(TM) SE Runtime Environment
(build 1.8.0_31-b13) Java HotSpot(TM) 64-Bit Server VM (build 25.31-b07,
mixed mode)  (at
/Library/Java/JavaVirtualMachines/jdk1.8.0_31.jdk/Contents/Home)
* Toolchain:      clang (clang/LLVM)
* C Compiler:     Version Apple LLVM version 6.0 (clang-600.0.56) (based on
LLVM 3.5svn) Target: x86_64-apple-darwin14.1.0 Thread model: posix (at
/usr/bin/clang)
* C++ Compiler:   Version Apple LLVM version 6.0 (clang-600.0.56) (based on
LLVM 3.5svn) Target: x86_64-apple-darwin14.1.0 Thread model: posix (at
/usr/bin/clang++)

Build performance summary:
* Cores to use:   4
* Memory limit:   16384 MB

Cheers,
Martijn