Re: Fwd: Re: RFR(xxs): 8072935: Fix missing newline at end of file after 8067447

2015-02-12 Thread Dave Pointon
Hi all , Not that I have any say in this matter, but I concur with Volker and would support his suggestion. ​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

Re: RFR: JDK-8072106 Properly handle dependencies for deleted header files

2015-02-03 Thread Dave Pointon
not be needed in the event that the initial compilation is repeated ... unless there's some sort of dynamic modification going on in the source file. Best 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

Re: Compile fails in JDK8

2015-01-28 Thread Dave Pointon
TFT Andrew , ​I did wonder ... I had a look in there - to no avail but your confirmation was what was required - I've now a better idea of where to start looking :-) ​ Many thanx agin. -- Dave Pointon FIAP MBCS Now I saw, tho' too late, the folly of beginning a work before we count the cost

Compile fails in JDK8

2015-01-28 Thread Dave Pointon
: *** [jdk-only] Error 2 make images failed, aborting... I've looked thro' the whole of the forest and the header file is nowhere to be found and neither is it to be found anywhere else on the compile host, so the question is, can anyone tell me from where this file originates ? TIA , -- Dave Pointon FIAP

Re: RFR: JDK-8071329: Stop exporting INCLUDE and LIB when building on windows

2015-01-22 Thread Dave Pointon
- by judicious use of alignment of the ':=' together with continuation lines. Presumably, I'd have to raise a bug to cover such changes ? ​TIA best 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

Re: Building on RHEL

2015-01-20 Thread Dave Pointon
-gnulib/2014-01/msg00034.html) which provides both a problem description and a posited work-around. Many tThanx again ,​ -- 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

Building on RHEL

2015-01-19 Thread Dave Pointon
the autoconf/m4 combination of v2.63/v1.4.13, which had previously worked, I wondered if there are any wise souls out there who might be able to point me in the right direction for a solution WRT OpenJDK. Many TIA , -- Dave Pointon FIAP MBCS Now I saw, tho' too late, the folly of beginning a work before

Re: Building on RHEL

2015-01-19 Thread Dave Pointon
​Hi again all , JIC it's of any interest, I've downloaded, built ​and subsequently used up-levelled versions of autoconf m4 (to 2.69 1.4.16) - at which point the aforementioned problem disappears. It should be noted that no such problem was observed on Ubuntu. -- Dave Pointon FIAP MBCS Now I

Re: RFR [JEP 220] Modular Run-Time Images - fix zero build

2014-12-03 Thread Dave Pointon
/_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

Re: RFR [JEP 220] Modular Run-Time Images - fix zero build

2014-12-03 Thread Dave Pointon
Yep , I like that even more, Erik :-) -- 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 3 December 2014 at 17:46, Erik Joelsson erik.joels

Re: build warnings

2014-12-03 Thread Dave Pointon
Amen to that Magnus - what possible motive can there be to fix invisible, benign 'problems' ? -- 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 3

Re: RFR: JDK-8065576: Enable pipefail in the shell used by make to better detect build errors

2014-12-01 Thread Dave Pointon
'... case x$$VAR ...' - the command result is left entirely for the recipe to deal with as it sees fit. Best 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

Re: sizes files

2014-11-12 Thread Dave Pointon
TFT David -- 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 12 November 2014 09:11, David Holmes david.hol...@oracle.com wrote: Hi Dave, On 11/11

Re: sizes files

2014-11-10 Thread Dave Pointon
​Hi again David , ​ ​In addition to changes in the GensrcX11Wrappers.gmk, I can't see any way to get the correct output with also modifying WrapperGenerator.java​, would I be correct in this ? ​TIA best rgds ,​ -- Dave Pointon FIAP MBCS Now I saw, tho' too late, the folly of beginning a work

Re: Building on Windoze (64 bit)

2014-10-31 Thread Dave Pointon
Hi all , FWIW, I've now raised the defect (JI-9016214) complete with fix which, AFAICT, is now awaiting triage. Rgds ,Dave P -- 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

Building on Windoze (64 bit)

2014-10-28 Thread Dave Pointon
. ​TIA ,​ -- 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

Re: Building on Windoze (64 bit)

2014-10-28 Thread Dave Pointon
Hi Phil , Ah right, obviously I'm mistaking the configure step of 'checking for X11/extensions/shape.h... no' as being the first step in its' quest for X. ​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

Re: Building on Windoze (64 bit)

2014-10-28 Thread Dave Pointon
Hiya Volker , I've realised (thanx entirely to you:-) that I omitted one of the most salient facts - I was/am attempting to build 'vanilla' jdk8-b132, so your very welcome offering bodes well for things for things to come ... Rgds , -- Dave Pointon FIAP MBCS Now I saw, tho' too late

Re: Building on Windoze (64 bit)

2014-10-28 Thread Dave Pointon
Awesome, TFT Alex. I'll use that as a starting point - I have, eventually, to roll this out across the build environment here, so I need to understand it sufficiently well to do that. Thanx again , -- Dave Pointon FIAP MBCS Now I saw, tho' too late, the folly of beginning a work before we

Re: What 'type' should I raise a defect against

2014-10-22 Thread Dave Pointon
TFT David , I'm afraid to say that I wouldn't have asked if a choice so obvious was available to me on/at http://bugreport.java.com/bugreport/submit_intro.do - all the of choices that I see are language/platform i.e. non-infrastructure/build, related. Rgds , -- Dave Pointon FIAP MBCS Now I saw

Re: What 'type' should I raise a defect against

2014-10-22 Thread Dave Pointon
TFT Erik , I rather thought that would be the case - I know that I've previously raised defects against the build system, but can't find the means by which I did so (as I don't now and didn't then, have an OJDK login). Rgds , -- Dave Pointon FIAP MBCS Now I saw, tho' too late, the folly

What 'type' should I raise a defect against

2014-10-21 Thread Dave Pointon
to play with jdk9) and want to raise a defect and submit its' resolution for review. 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

Re: OJDK on RHEL 6.5

2014-10-20 Thread Dave Pointon
/extensions/XInput.h Very many thanx again for your insight (well it was late Sunday after a loong weekend - that's my excuse and I'm sticking to it :-) , -- 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

Re: OJDK on RHEL 6.5

2014-10-20 Thread Dave Pointon
TFT MArio , Maybe it was just me, but I (obviously wrongly) expected it to be as smooth easy as it was for my original l/t build - which was ubuntu 12.04. -- 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

Re: sizes files

2014-10-19 Thread Dave Pointon
Hiya Magnus , Long time, no speak. I'm working on what I thought is/was a merge of jdk8 latest with our bespoke IBM forest - from which I guess that the merge either hasn't occurred, is in due process or has not been merged well :-( ​Best rgds ,​ -- Dave Pointon FIAP MBCS Now I saw, tho' too

Re: sizes files

2014-10-19 Thread Dave Pointon
the same behaviour on our 31 bit s390 platform also. If you confirm my nference, then I will, of course, raise the defect in order to track the defect its' progress. TIA best rgds, -- Dave Pointon FIAP MBCS Now I saw, tho' too late, the folly of beginning a work before we count the cost

OJDK on RHEL 6.5

2014-10-19 Thread Dave Pointon
/guidance will, as always, be gratefully received. I haven't, I would hope self-evidently, encountered this on any of the other Linux flavours on which I've attempted a build. TIA rgds , -- Dave Pointon FIAP MBCS Now I saw, tho' too late, the folly of beginning a work before we count the cost

Re: sizes files

2014-10-18 Thread Dave Pointon
Hiya David , Thanx very much for that, I presume you actually meant jdk/makefiles/gensrc/GensrcX11Wrappers.gmk :-) Looks to be most useful and some more work for the JCL team. Very many thanx again, -- Dave Pointon FIAP MBCS Now I saw, tho' too late, the folly of beginning a work before we

Re: Building on non-std architectures

2014-10-17 Thread Dave Pointon
it [the above fix] more generically applicable will be gratefully received. 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 1 October 2014 11:44

sizes files

2014-10-17 Thread Dave Pointon
Hi all , In connection with the previously asked 31-bit configure question, could anybody tell me how the jdk/src/solaris/classes/sun/awt/X11/generator/sizes.* were generated/created in order that I can provide a 31 bit equivalent ? TIA rgds , -- Dave Pointon FIAP MBCS Now I saw, tho' too late

Re: JDK-8037953 configure usability: Should provide better details on imported hotspot

2014-05-08 Thread Dave Pointon
' - 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. ​TIA rgds ,​ ​​ -- Dave Pointon FIAP MBCS Now I saw, tho' too late, the folly of beginning

Re: JDK-8037953 configure usability: Should provide better details on imported hotspot

2014-05-08 Thread Dave Pointon
, 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

JDK-8037953 configure usability: Should provide better details on imported hotspot

2014-05-07 Thread Dave Pointon
that will prove beneficial to all. I now crave your indulgence for consideration of what I believe to be a self-contained thus no webrev, enhancement to the build system as completely identified in https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-8037953... TIA and rgds to all, -- Dave Pointon FIAP MBCS Now

Re: jdk8-b73 nashorn

2014-05-07 Thread Dave Pointon
Thanx for the fast response, Dave - reply duly noted and indeed promulgated :-) Thanx again , -- 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 7

Re: jdk8-b73 nashorn

2014-05-07 Thread Dave Pointon
was created ... or is it me ? -- 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 7 May 2014 19:00, Dave Pointon point...@gmail.com wrote: Thanx for the fast

Re: jdk8-b73 nashorn

2014-05-07 Thread Dave Pointon
-evidently not. Very many thanx for your forebearance in being a sounding board. -- 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 7 May 2014 19:29, David

Re: RFR: JDK-8036145: Solaris standard grep does not understand -qE

2014-03-04 Thread Dave Pointon
backslash-escaped! local quoted_quote='\\'' quoted_exclam='\\!' /Erik snip Looks good, altho' I'd question the use of the '-E' switch/option anyway - there appears to be nothing that requires the use of extended RE's (which is what -E enables). Rgds , -- Dave Pointon FIAP MBCS Now

Re: (XS) RFR: JDK-8028770 LIBARCHNAME should not be used in CompileLauncher.gmk

2014-02-24 Thread Dave Pointon
-CompileLauncher/webrev.01 /Magnus Hiya Magnus , As removals go, the posited change looks the part to this non-reviewer. Best 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

Re: RFR: JDK-8033292 configure MAKE=foo causes configure to fail

2014-02-04 Thread Dave Pointon
to configure: $unknown_variables]) +AC_MSG_WARN([The following variables might be unknown to configure: $unknown_variables]) fi ]) /Magnus Looks good to this non-reviewer. -- Dave Pointon FIAP MBCS Now I saw, tho' too late, the folly of beginning a work before we count the cost

Re: RFR: JDK-8031709: Configure --with-jvm-variants=client, server, x produces default outputdir containing comma

2014-01-16 Thread Dave Pointon
/,/AND/g'` I would suggest that the same is true of the setting of COUNT_VARIANTS. Just my pen'orth FWIW 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

Re: RFR: JDK-8029512 : webrev.ksh: fix parsing of parent repo paths from hgrc file

2014-01-08 Thread Dave Pointon
Hiya Mike , On Tue, 2014-01-07 at 09:35 -0800, Mike Duigou wrote: On Jan 7 2014, at 03:46 , Dave Pointon dpoin...@linux.vnet.ibm.com wrote: snip Thanks for the correction. My tests didn't require the filter stage so I failed to notice that this typo had crept in. No probs - that's what

Re: RFR: JDK-8029512 : webrev.ksh: fix parsing of parent repo paths from hgrc file

2014-01-07 Thread Dave Pointon
operator. Best 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

Re: RFR: 8030350: Enable additional compiler warnings for GCC

2013-12-18 Thread Dave Pointon
to be concentrated on those that are unwanted/unexpected? 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

Re: RFR: JDK-8029515 Building multiple configurations fails after removal of old build system

2013-12-09 Thread Dave Pointon
... and the implementation looks good as well. 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

Re: RFR: JDK-8029512 : webrev.ksh: fix parsing of parent repo paths from hgrc file

2013-12-04 Thread Dave Pointon
` fi 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

Re: RFR: JDK-8029512 : webrev.ksh: fix parsing of parent repo paths from hgrc file

2013-12-04 Thread Dave Pointon
Oooops , On Wed, 2013-12-04 at 11:48 +, Dave Pointon wrote: snip I concur with you Erik, character classes are only proven to work with/in perl 5 across all platforms. I suggest that the need to parse whitespace can be eliminated entirely by using awk(1) with a field-delimiter

Re: Improving the management and accessibility of the handling of JDK variants

2013-12-04 Thread Dave Pointon
... but essentially, it [the IBM OJDK variant] is based on building OpenJDK using a pre-built IBM JVM. HTH , 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

Re: RFR: JDK-8029512 : webrev.ksh: fix parsing of parent repo paths from hgrc file

2013-12-04 Thread Dave Pointon
5.10 Generic_142910-17 i86pc i386 i86pc Bad string abc 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

Re: jdk8 extra c/cxx - flags settings

2013-12-02 Thread Dave Pointon
Hi Magnus , On Mon, 2013-12-02 at 14:55 +0100, Magnus Ihse Bursie wrote: On 2013-11-22 14:34, Dave Pointon wrote: I don't know if it's of any help, but I've noticed that configure sometimes needs to be run twice before the additional/new/modified option(s) take effect - quite frequently

Re: Improving the management and accessibility of the handling of JDK variants

2013-11-25 Thread Dave Pointon
to allow alternate root directory specification on a per-build-variant basis. 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

Re: jdk8 extra c/cxx - flags settings

2013-11-22 Thread Dave Pointon
to be run twice before the additional/new/modified option(s) take effect - quite frequently, the first time is merely a re-run of the previously generated generated-configure.sh. HTH , Rgds , -- Dave Pointon FIAP MBCS Now I saw, tho' too late, the folly of beginning a work before we count the cost

Re: Improving the management and accessibility of the handling of JDK variants

2013-11-22 Thread Dave Pointon
Hi Magnus et al , On Thu, 2013-11-21 at 16:30 +, Dave Pointon wrote: snip In the process of attempting to describe the changes I'm playing with, I've realized that I've made a coupla wrong assumptions and completely inflexible and thus inappropriate, design decisions. I'll post further

Re: Setting BOOT_RTJAR: rt.jar vs. 'sun.boot.class.path'

2013-11-22 Thread Dave Pointon
on the system when configure is run. 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

Re: Setting BOOT_RTJAR: rt.jar vs. 'sun.boot.class.path'

2013-11-22 Thread Dave Pointon
On Fri, 2013-11-22 at 07:52 -0800, Martin Buchholz wrote: On Fri, Nov 22, 2013 at 7:32 AM, Dave Pointon dpoin...@linux.vnet.ibm.com wrote: Much as though I like and indeed applaud, this change, on a more general note, it surprises me that more use isn't

Re: JI-9008287 - configure should provide better error reports about bootjvm binaries

2013-11-21 Thread Dave Pointon
generated, I'm just awaiting Neils' return to get it posted... 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

Re: JI-9008287 - configure should provide better error reports about bootjvm binaries

2013-11-21 Thread Dave Pointon
Hi again, Magnus , On Fri, 2013-11-22 at 00:35 +1000, David Holmes wrote: On 21/11/2013 11:05 PM, Magnus Ihse Bursie wrote: On 2013-11-19 13:47, Dave Pointon wrote: The updated webrev can be found at http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~ngmr/JI-9008287/webrev.02/ The actual code looks better

Re: Improving the management and accessibility of the handling of JDK variants

2013-11-21 Thread Dave Pointon
/useful model to impart ... 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

Re: JI-9008287 - configure should provide better error reports about bootjvm binaries

2013-11-19 Thread Dave Pointon
Hi David , On Tue, 2013-11-19 at 06:28 +1000, David Holmes wrote: Hi Dave, On 19/11/2013 1:34 AM, Dave Pointon wrote: snip Minor style nit but note that the pattern used everywhere is x$FOO = x. So changing to use j or r is undesirable. OK, TFT. It was merely an obviously misguided

Re: JI-9008287 - configure should provide better error reports about bootjvm binaries

2013-11-19 Thread Dave Pointon
the same process as the build team - which involves the use of a sandbox IBM bootjvm that does not contain any file having executable permissions - updated webrev to follow ... Rgds , -- Dave Pointon FIAP MBCS Now I saw, tho' too late, the folly of beginning a work before we count the cost

Re: JI-9008287 - configure should provide better error reports about bootjvm binaries

2013-11-19 Thread Dave Pointon
On Tue, 2013-11-19 at 12:03 +, Dave Pointon wrote: Hi Magnus , snip I don't disagree - with the benefit of hindsight + invaluable insight provided by the group, I think that I am reading far too much into the problem I encountered whilst building, or attempting to build, the IBM

Re: JDK-8028446 Non-orthogonal usage of the configure script and its wrapper, was JDK-9008238 Non-orthogonal usage of the configure script and its wrapper

2013-11-18 Thread Dave Pointon
Re-titled to provide link between JI OJDK bug ids. On Fri, 2013-11-15 at 15:32 +, Dave Pointon wrote: Hi all , Having encountered the above and implemented a/the trivial solution, I would appreciate your guidance as to the next steps. I believe, as I said in the bug, that this would

JI-9008287 - configure should provide better error reports about bootjvm binaries

2013-11-18 Thread Dave Pointon
has been accepted but has yet to be triaged, hence the JI number. 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

Improving the management and accessibility of the handling of JDK variants

2013-11-18 Thread Dave Pointon
option validation macro That's about as far as I've got ... as yet, so any all thoughts WRT this toe-in-the-water, slightly more convoluted, exercise are most welcome ... TIA rgds , -- Dave Pointon FIAP MBCS Now I saw, tho' too late, the folly of beginning a work before we count the cost

JDK-9008238 Non-orthogonal usage of the configure script and its wrapper

2013-11-15 Thread Dave Pointon
a webrev for your perusal - the diff can also be found in the above bug. 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

Re: JDK-9008238 Non-orthogonal usage of the configure script and its wrapper

2013-11-15 Thread Dave Pointon
On Fri, 2013-11-15 at 16:15 +, Alan Bateman wrote: On 15/11/2013 16:03, Dave Pointon wrote: : TFT Alan , I have to admit that I thought that I'd created therein - the description for the Product/Category was 'Java Platform Standard Edition (JDK/JRE)', so I thought that would do