Hi Erik, Tim, Kelly Here's a proposed fix for you to review:
http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~martin/webrevs/openjdk8/COMPILER_CHECK_LIST/ Martin On Fri, Jan 25, 2013 at 3:51 PM, Martin Buchholz <marti...@google.com>wrote: > I was trying out the shiny new build system. > > Problem: configure is not executable - must run bash ./configure > It's traditional for configure scripts to be executable. > > Problem: Your life is hell if you have a non-compiler "cl" command on your > PATH, even on Linux. > > checking for cl... /usr/bin/cl > configure: Resolving CC (as /usr/bin/cl) failed, using /usr/bin/cl > directly. > > with subsequent failure to compile. > > Even if you specify the compiler explicitly, it doesn't help: > > CC=/usr/bin/gcc CXX=/usr/bin/g++ bash ./configure > > Of course, one can work around this by creating a "tools dir", but > excising the unloved cl from the configure script is tempting and effective. >