I cloned jdk7u-dev today, via get_source.sh and then built from the jdk/make directory using: make ARCH_DATA_MODEL=32 ALLOW_DOWNLOADS=true NO_DOCS=true
The build ran a long time and then failed with: make[3]: Entering directory `/cygdrive/c/Users/Pete/JDK7u/jdk7u-dev/jdk/make/com/sun/jmx' <snip> ../../../../build/windows-i586/bin/java -XX:-PrintVMOptions -XX:+UnlockDiagnosticVMOptions -XX:-LogVMOutput -client -Xmx512m -Xms512m -XX:PermSize=32m -XX:MaxPermSize=160m -cp ../../../../build/windows-i586/classes sun.rmi.rmic.Main -classpath "../../../../build/windows-i586/classes" \ -d ../../../../build/windows-i586/classes \ -v1.2 \ -keepgenerated \ javax.management.remote.rmi.RMIConnectionImpl Error occurred during initialization of VM java/lang/NoClassDefFoundError: java/lang/invoke/AdapterMethodHandle .../jdk/build/windows-i586/classes/java/lang/invoke has a lot of classes, but not that one. Any ideas on how to get past this? Pete