Hmmm , Would it not be possible to modify Xerxes' suggested patch to do something along the lines of ...
# sa-jdi.jar do not exist for Itanium and zero ifeq ($(shell if test -a $(HOTSPOT_DIST)/lib/sa-jdi.jar; then echo N; fi),N) SA_TARGETS += \ $(JDK_OUTPUTDIR)/modules/jdk.hotspot.agent/_the.sa.jar.unpacked \ $(SUPPORT_OUTPUTDIR)/gensrc/jdk.hotspot.agent/_the.sa.services endif Just a thought -- Dave Pointon FIAP MBCS - contractor engaged by IBM 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 3 December 2014 at 14:30, Erik Joelsson <erik.joels...@oracle.com> wrote: > Hello Xerxes, > > Thanks for the suggestion. I have created https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/ > browse/JDK-8066589 to track this issue. Unfortunately we won't have time > to fix it before pushing JEP 220 to jdk9. I hope this won't inconvenience > you too much. > > Your suggested patch does correctly highlight the problem areas, but will > not work since gnu make does not accept shell logic outside of recipes or > $(shell ...) constructs. > > /Erik > > <snip> >