Hi, The current tip of jdk9/dev and kulla/dev appear to be broken on Mac 10.9.
Running make images gives ~61 errors, all of the form: /Users/boxcat/projects/openjdk/kulla/hotspot/agent/src/share/classes/sun/jvm/hotspot/gc/cms/CMSBitMap.java:77: error: reference to VirtualSpace is ambiguous public VirtualSpace virtualSpace() { ^ both class sun.jvm.hotspot.runtime.VirtualSpace in sun.jvm.hotspot.runtime and class sun.jvm.hotspot.memory.VirtualSpace in sun.jvm.hotspot.memory match /Users/boxcat/projects/openjdk/kulla/hotspot/agent/src/share/classes/sun/jvm/hotspot/gc/cms/CompactibleFreeListSpace.java:38: error: reference to CompactibleSpace is ambiguous public class CompactibleFreeListSpace extends CompactibleSpace { ^ both class sun.jvm.hotspot.memory.CompactibleSpace in sun.jvm.hotspot.memory and class sun.jvm.hotspot.gc.shared.CompactibleSpace in sun.jvm.hotspot.gc.shared match /Users/boxcat/projects/openjdk/kulla/hotspot/agent/src/share/classes/sun/jvm/hotspot/gc/shared/Generation.java:184: error: reference to VirtualSpace is ambiguous protected VirtualSpace virtualSpace() { ^ both class sun.jvm.hotspot.runtime.VirtualSpace in sun.jvm.hotspot.runtime and class sun.jvm.hotspot.memory.VirtualSpace in sun.jvm.hotspot.memory match /Users/boxcat/projects/openjdk/kulla/hotspot/agent/src/share/classes/sun/jvm/hotspot/oops/ObjectHeap.java:396: error: reference to SpaceClosure is ambiguous private class LiveRegionsCollector implements SpaceClosure { ^ both interface sun.jvm.hotspot.memory.SpaceClosure in sun.jvm.hotspot.memory and interface sun.jvm.hotspot.gc.shared.SpaceClosure in sun.jvm.hotspot.gc.shared match /Users/boxcat/projects/openjdk/kulla/hotspot/agent/src/share/classes/sun/jvm/hotspot/oops/ObjectHeap.java:401: error: reference to Space is ambiguous public void doSpace(Space s) { ^ both class sun.jvm.hotspot.memory.Space in sun.jvm.hotspot.memory and class sun.jvm.hotspot.gc.shared.Space in sun.jvm.hotspot.gc.shared match /Users/boxcat/projects/openjdk/kulla/hotspot/agent/src/share/classes/sun/jvm/hotspot/tools/HeapSummary.java:208: error: reference to Generation is ambiguous private void printGen(Generation gen) { ^ both class sun.jvm.hotspot.memory.Generation in sun.jvm.hotspot.memory and class sun.jvm.hotspot.gc.shared.Generation in sun.jvm.hotspot.gc.shared match or: /Users/boxcat/projects/openjdk/kulla/hotspot/agent/src/share/classes/sun/jvm/hotspot/gc/cms/CompactibleFreeListSpace.java:84: error: cannot find symbol collectorField.getValue(addr)); ^ symbol: variable addr location: class CompactibleFreeListSpace /Users/boxcat/projects/openjdk/kulla/hotspot/agent/src/share/classes/sun/jvm/hotspot/gc/cms/CompactibleFreeListSpace.java:88: error: cannot find symbol return capacity() - used0(); ^ symbol: method capacity() location: class CompactibleFreeListSpace /Users/boxcat/projects/openjdk/kulla/hotspot/agent/src/share/classes/sun/jvm/hotspot/gc/cms/CompactibleFreeListSpace.java:92: error: cannot find symbol return capacity() - free(); ^ symbol: method capacity() location: class CompactibleFreeListSpace /Users/boxcat/projects/openjdk/kulla/hotspot/agent/src/share/classes/sun/jvm/hotspot/gc/cms/CompactibleFreeListSpace.java:108: error: cannot find symbol Address cur = addr.addOffsetTo( indexedFreeListField.getOffset() ); ^ symbol: variable addr location: class CompactibleFreeListSpace In my jdk9 repo, my current hg tip is: $ hg tip changeset: 1599:a74d1574da34 tag: tip user: naoto date: Mon Aug 03 21:49:23 2015 -0700 summary: 8129881: JDK-8008577 breaks Nashorn test This was from a clean build. I've also verified it by a completely clean download and starting from scratch, and also used both 8u25 and a build of JDK 9 mainline as the boot JDK. Same result in each case. It looks as though it might be a clash of imports caused by overly broad imports and some files changing internal packages. For example, this change to CMSBitMap.java (in hotspot/agent/src/share/classes/sun/jvm/hotspot/gc/cms) seems to resolve the ambiguity for that one file: $ diff -u CMSBitMap.java.dst CMSBitMap.java --- CMSBitMap.java.dst 2015-07-07 14:52:20.000000000 +0100 +++ CMSBitMap.java 2015-07-07 15:02:23.000000000 +0100 @@ -27,8 +27,10 @@ import java.io.*; import java.util.*; import sun.jvm.hotspot.debugger.*; -import sun.jvm.hotspot.memory.*; -import sun.jvm.hotspot.runtime.*; +import sun.jvm.hotspot.memory.VirtualSpace; +import sun.jvm.hotspot.runtime.VM; +import sun.jvm.hotspot.runtime.VMObject; +import sun.jvm.hotspot.runtime.VMObjectFactory; import sun.jvm.hotspot.types.*; import sun.jvm.hotspot.utilities.*; $ make images > comp.out 2> comp.err $ grep -n CMSBitMap comp.err Any ideas? Happy to provide additional information as needed. Also, somewhat concerned that binaries have been produced for JDK 9 betas, which may indicate a fragility of the current build used to produce betas. Thanks, Ben