Compile fails in JDK8

2015-01-28 Thread Dave Pointon
iles' make: *** [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 ? T

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 th

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

2015-02-03 Thread Dave Pointon
ation would 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 befo

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

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

2013-11-15 Thread Dave Pointon
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 15:47 +, Alan Bateman wrote: > On 15/11/2013 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 b

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 St

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 +0000, 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

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

2013-11-18 Thread Dave Pointon
ious, the defect 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
ise the new 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

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: > > > > Minor style nit but note that the pattern used everywhere is x$FOO = x. > So changing to use "j" or "r" is undesira

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

2013-11-19 Thread Dave Pointon
the IBM variant of the JDK whilst following 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 beginn

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 , > > > 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 attem

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 , > > > 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 attem

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

2013-11-21 Thread Dave Pointon
't, so I won't :-) Change made & webrev.03 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.

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

2013-11-21 Thread Dave Pointon
exible and thus inappropriate, design decisions. I'll post further once I believe I have a more generally applicable/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: jdk8 extra c/cxx - flags settings

2013-11-22 Thread Dave Pointon
C++ compile flags for this special case ? > > > Thanks, >Matthias > 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, the first time

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: > 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 deci

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

2013-11-22 Thread Dave Pointon
nge, on a more general note, it surprises me that more use isn't made of the power of perl since it [perl] is a fundamental part of autotools and thus has to be present 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 > wrote: > > > Much as though I like and indeed applaud, this change, on a more > general > note, it surprise

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

2013-11-25 Thread Dave Pointon
e build variant root directory, but my current implementation could be extended 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: JI-9008287 - configure should provide better error reports about bootjvm binaries

2013-11-25 Thread Dave Pointon
Hi David , On Thu, 2013-11-21 at 16:34 +, Dave Pointon wrote: > Hi David , > > On Fri, 2013-11-22 at 01:45 +1000, David Holmes wrote: > > > Please do. I moved the JI issue to JDK: > > > > https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-8028794 > > > >

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 >

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

2013-12-04 Thread Dave Pointon
=`awk -F'=' '/^default(-push)/{print $NF}' .hg/hgrc || $FILTER` 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: > > 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 > fie

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

2013-12-04 Thread Dave Pointon
y and will keep you posted ... 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 o

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

2013-12-04 Thread Dave Pointon
d '[:space:]' ; echo a b c | tr -d ' ' SunOS duke.hursley.ibm.com 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: RFR: JDK-8029515 Building multiple configurations fails after removal of old build system

2013-12-09 Thread Dave Pointon
> As a noobie with little to offer in any 'official' capacity, this seems to me to be a most sensible move ... 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: 8030350: Enable additional compiler warnings for GCC

2013-12-18 Thread Dave Pointon
unted, thus allowing effort 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-8029512 : webrev.ksh: fix parsing of parent repo paths from hgrc file

2014-01-07 Thread Dave Pointon
;). I would suggest the use of perl for JDK 9 since all whitespace characters are matched &/or captured by the '\s' regex 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: 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 wrote: > > > 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'

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

2014-01-16 Thread Dave Pointon
k > Hi Eric , Altho' I have no role as a reviewer, it looks good, if not a little verbose since the commands could be made, IMO, far more readably by catenating the separate -e options - thus re-writing as ... ANDED_JVM_VARIANTS=`$ECHO "$JVM_VARIANTS" | $SED -e 's/^,//; s/,$//;

Re: JDK 9 RFR of JDK-8032734: Add cast lint warning to build of jdk repository

2014-01-27 Thread Dave Pointon
xecuted during a JDK build to build other parts of > the JDK must be > # executed by the bootstrap JDK (probably with -Xbootclasspath/p: ) > and for this > > Thanks, > > -Joe > Anything to reduce the plethora of compile-time warnings - looks good to me, albeit as a non-reviewer. Rg

Re: RFR: JDK-8031759 Configure should handle overrides of tools better

2014-01-27 Thread Dave Pointon
ertions WRT environment variables, specifically regarding their invisibility and impossibility to check. 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: RFR: JDK-8033292 configure MAKE=foo causes configure to fail

2014-02-04 Thread Dave Pointon
unknown_variables=${CONFIGURE_OVERRIDDEN_VARIABLES//!/ } > -AC_MSG_ERROR([The following variables are unknown to configure: > $unknown_variables]) > +AC_MSG_WARN([The following variables might be unknown to configure: > $unknown_variables]) > fi > ]) &

Re: Support for different compilers

2014-02-04 Thread Dave Pointon
d be > an absolute last resort in my opinion. > > David > - I agree - rushes off to re-inspect local code changes to ensure that I've not contravened the assertion/requirement ... -- Dave Pointon FIAP MBCS Now I saw, tho' too late, the folly of beginning a work bef

Re: RFR: JDK-8034788 Rewrite toolchain.m4 to support multiple toolchains per platform

2014-02-22 Thread Dave Pointon
7;m not a reviewer either. :-) -- 012345678901234567890123456789012345678901234567890123456789012345678901 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: (XS) RFR: JDK-8028770 LIBARCHNAME should not be used in CompileLauncher.gmk

2014-02-24 Thread Dave Pointon
: > http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~ihse/JDK-8028770-remove-LIBARCHNAME-from-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 beginn

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

2014-03-04 Thread Dave Pointon
t not > # when backslash-escaped! > local quoted_quote="'\\''" quoted_exclam="'\\!'" > > /Erik > 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 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

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

2014-05-07 Thread Dave Pointon
anner 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

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2014-05-07 Thread Dave Pointon
used in OJDK to establish the appropriate level of sub-repos ? 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: 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 Cru

Re: jdk8-b73 & nashorn

2014-05-07 Thread Dave Pointon
he tag 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 wrote: > Thanx for

Re: jdk8-b73 & nashorn

2014-05-07 Thread Dave Pointon
r level' were equivalent ... self-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'

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

2014-05-08 Thread Dave Pointon
nformation' - 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,

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

2014-05-08 Thread Dave Pointon
s 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 rig

Re: Building on non-std architectures

2014-10-17 Thread Dave Pointon
RGET_CPU_BITS)]) Any advice etc. to make 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 streng

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&

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 befo

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

Re: sizes files

2014-10-19 Thread Dave Pointon
nfer that I should expect 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 beginn

OJDK on RHEL 6.5

2014-10-19 Thread Dave Pointon
675154111 Hg]$ Any help/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 b

Re: OJDK on RHEL 6.5

2014-10-20 Thread Dave Pointon
ame: /usr/include/X11/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 co

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 judg

What 'type' should I raise a defect against

2014-10-21 Thread Dave Pointon
ot yet had chance 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: 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

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

Review request: JDK-8061924 - demos target fails if users CDPATH is incorrectly set

2014-10-23 Thread Dave Pointon
later back-porting to jdk8u. At the time of writing, both the bug and the efficacy of the patch, have been tested on x86, x86_64, ppc, ppc64 & ppcle platforms. TIA & rgds , -- Dave Pointon FIAP MBCS Now I saw, tho' too late, the folly of beginning a work before we count the cost and befor

Building on Windoze (64 bit)

2014-10-28 Thread Dave Pointon
ually happening. ​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 co

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

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

Re: Building on Windoze (64 bit)

2014-10-29 Thread Dave Pointon
mainly to your your good self :-) 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 29 October 2014 09:07, Erik Joelsson wrote:

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

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 be

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 wrote: > Hi Dave, > > On 11/11

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

2014-12-01 Thread Dave Pointon
.', whereas the same does not hold for the command '... 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 c

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

2014-12-03 Thread Dave Pointon
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 s

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 wrote:

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 - R

Re: RFR (XS) 8031064: build_vm_def.sh not working correctly for new build cross compile

2015-01-19 Thread Dave Pointon
such that bash is not available on those platform(s) e.g. AIX. Just my 10c FWIW -- 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

Building on RHEL

2015-01-19 Thread Dave Pointon
m running 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 begin

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 Poin

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

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

2015-01-22 Thread Dave Pointon
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