configure jdk new build on win 7 enterprise

[Eric Caspole]

Yes it was something like that. Although my original install of cygwin 
took more than an hour downloading stuff from the web, it did not 
install make or zip by default, so I went back and added them in a 
second install step.

It is starting the build now, we'll see.


On 01/10/2013 08:22 PM, Frost, Gary wrote:
> So is the gmake file (under Perl) really gnu make?
>
> Have you downloaded the cygwin make package.  My guess is the binary under
> perl/c is not really make.  Maybe they want you to rename gnu make to
> gmake so that it is picked up instead of microsofts own make.
>
> From
> http://cygwin.com/packages/make/make-3.81-2
>
>
> It sure looks like cygwins make is called make.exe not gmake.exeŠ.
>
> Confusing.
>
> Gary
>
>
>
> On 1/10/13 5:33 PM, "Eric Caspole" <eric.caspole at amd.com> wrote:
>
>> Hi everyone,
>> I am trying to get something ready for eventual contribution in to
>> sumatra, and I would like to check my code works on Windows.
>>
>> This is the first time I am building the JDK on Windows using the new
>> build.
>>
>> I have installed the complete latest cygwin, but the configure does not
>> like the gmake in cygwin. This is Windows 7 enterprise SP1 and I .
>>
>> My error output is shown below.
>>
>> Does anyone know the fix for this or what else needs to be installed?
>>
>> I have set up the system like I was otherwise using to build just
>> hotspot (not the whole JDK) a few months ago with Windows SDK 7.1.
>>
>> I'll keep searching in the build-dev list but I have not found anything
>> yet.
>> Thanks for any advice,
>> Eric
>>
>>
>> =========
>>
>> AparapiTest at AparapiTest-PC /cygdrive/c/Users/AparapiTest/views/sumatra-dev
>> $ sh ./configure
>> Running generated-configure.sh
>> configure: Configuration created at Thu Jan 10 15:38:38 CST 2013.
>> configure: configure script generated at timestamp 1355963953.
>> checking for basename... /usr/bin/basename
>>
>> ...
>>
>> checking for pkgadd... no
>> checking for gmake... /cygdrive/c/Perl/c/bin/gmake
>> configure: Testing potential make at /cygdrive/c/Perl/c/bin/gmake, found
>> using gmake in PATH
>>   at /cygdrive/c/Perl/c/bin/gmake, but it is not for cygwin (it says:
>> Built for x86_64-w64-mingw32). Ignoring.
>> checking for make... no
>> configure: error: Cannot find GNU make 3.81 or newer! Please put it in
>> the path, or add e.g. MAKE=/opt/gmake3.81/make as argument to configure.
>> configure exiting with result code 1
>>
>> AparapiTest at AparapiTest-PC /cygdrive/c/Users/AparapiTest/views/sumatra-dev
>> $ uname -a
>> CYGWIN_NT-6.1-WOW64 AparapiTest-PC 1.7.17(0.262/5/3) 2012-10-19 14:39
>> i686 Cygwin
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