What does "../../../../build/windows-i586/bin/java -version" return? That must be HotSpot 24 (i.e. something like '..build 24.0-b34..').
How did you specify your boot-jdk? Maybe you didn't really build a new hotspot but imported it from the boot-jdk and that was too old? If you want you can compare your build logs with our nightly build logs of jdk7u on windows at:http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~simonis/ppc-aix-port/logs/NTAMD64/nightly/output-jdk7u-fastdebug.log.gz Regards Volker On Sat, May 4, 2013 at 5:40 AM, John Rose <john.r.r...@oracle.com> wrote: > > On May 3, 2013, at 8:42 AM, Pete Brunet <peter.bru...@oracle.com> wrote: > >> Error occurred during initialization of VM >> java/lang/NoClassDefFoundError: java/lang/invoke/AdapterMethodHandle > > It's a micro-version mismatch, from running a down-rev JVM on an up-rev > rt.jar (JDK). > > But I don't understand why your makefile is running an old JVM on a new > rt.jar. That's build voodoo, I presume. > > — John