Hello Sam:
Somebody please help me to resolve this error. Please find error message in the attachment.
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/home/samkraju/OpenJDK/jdk7/build/linux-i586/gensrc/java/nio/charset/CharsetEncoder.java:142: cannot find symbol symbol : class $replType$ location: class java.nio.charset.CharsetEncoder private $replType$ replacement;
This is the /bin/bash versus /bin/dash issue on recent release(s) of Ubuntu. There are a couple of related bug IDs: http://bugs.sun.com/view_bug.do?bug_id=6681798 https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/dash/+bug/61463 Also this thread on build-dev (at) openjdk.java.net: http://mail.openjdk.java.net/pipermail/build-dev/2008-May/001047.html The workaround (according to Martin) is 'sudo dpkg-reconfigure dash' and answer no HTH - Tim