build errors on Linux

[David Holmes]

On 19/09/2012 1:42 AM, Alan Bateman wrote:
> On 18/09/2012 16:21, Henri Gomez wrote:
>> While building latest jigsaw on Linux (Fedora 17 32 and 64bits), I get
>> following error :
>>
> I don't have Fedora 17 handy, is this gcc 4.7? I recall seeing changes
> go by to allow hotspot compile with the latest gcc but I don't think
> those changes have made it to jigsaw/jigsaw yet. On that, we haven't
> sync'ed up jigsaw/jigsaw since b48 so we are a bit behind. The current
> priority is to get the classpath mode support in soon afterwards we'll
> do a bit sync up as there are lot of hotspot changes to merge with.

Yep these are all the gcc 4.7 issues that got fixed in hotspot.

David

> -Alan.