Ah OK, thanx for the tip, Erik, never thought of that [building hotspot] either - my, oh my, what a weeks it's been ... and it's not over yet by a long chalk.
I only asked because of the observation that David made and you re-iterated - I just wondered if there might be a properties file, or similar, from which the version info could be gleaned since there appears to be a jvm.cmptag in the IBM JVM that I'm trying to use for the build. -- Dave Pointon FIAP MBCS Now I saw, tho' too late, the folly of beginning a work before we count the cost and before we we judge rightly of our strength to go thro' with it - Robinson Crusoe On 8 May 2014 14:03, Erik Joelsson <erik.joels...@oracle.com> wrote: > Hello, > > > On 2014-05-08 13:55, Dave Pointon wrote: > > Hi Erik , > > Thanx for that, bizarrely, I never even considered that JIRA might > choose to apply a little re-formatting but it undoubtedly has. > > Anyway, I'm a not little uncertain of your assertion 'The problem then is > that there will be no java launcher present to query for version > information' - would you happen to know if there is a definition of the > (expected) contents of a hotspot build - as you can probably tell, I rather > assumed that a bin directory (and indeed bin/java) would be in there. > > If you build hotspot, look what it produces in the dist sub directory > in the build output. > > David Holmes also has a valid point. The bin/java in the imported hotspot > might not even be runnable if we are cross compiling. In that case we also > need to refrain from trying to run it. > > /Erik > > TIA & rgds , > > > -- > Dave Pointon FIAP MBCS > > Now I saw, tho' too late, the folly of beginning a work before we count > the cost and before we we judge rightly of our strength to go thro' with it > - Robinson Crusoe > > > On 8 May 2014 08:56, Erik Joelsson <erik.joels...@oracle.com> wrote: > >> Hello Dave, >> >> Adding this information certainly makes sense. While probably not a very >> common usecase, it is currently possible to point "--with-import-hotspot" >> to the dist directory of a Hotspot build. The problem then is that there >> will be no java launcher present to query for version information. Could >> you please add a condition on the existance of >> $with_import_hotspot/bin/java before trying to run it? If it's not there, >> the version will simply be unknown. >> >> The patch looks like it's missing indentation. This might be because of >> formatting in JIRA, but in case it's not, please indent the if statements >> properly with 2 spaces. >> >> /Erik >> <snip> >> > >
