Unfortunately a piece of debug output slipped into basics.m4 some time ago.
That it hasn't been discovered until now is probably proof that nobody reads the output from configure. :-&
Bug: https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-8147091 Diff inline: diff --git a/common/autoconf/basics.m4 b/common/autoconf/basics.m4 --- a/common/autoconf/basics.m4 +++ b/common/autoconf/basics.m4 @@ -1122,7 +1122,6 @@ # Move configure.log from current directory to the build output root if test -e ./configure.log; then - echo found it $MV -f ./configure.log "$OUTPUT_ROOT/configure.log" 2> /dev/null fi /Magnus