jdk15 build failure on CURRENT 20070524

[Greg Lewis]

On Tue, May 29, 2007 at 12:17:44PM -0400, Jung-uk Kim wrote:
> On Tuesday 29 May 2007 03:02 am, Rene Ladan wrote:
> > 2007/5/28, Rene Ladan <r.c.ladan at gmail.com>:
> > > Hi,
> > >
> > > on my i386-CURRENT box as of 20070524, (i.e. with GCC 4.2 and
> > > symbol versioning), building jdk15 fails with the attached log. 
> > > This seems to be a different error than the one reported earlier
> > > on java@
> > >
> > > Any ideas?
> >
> > Vlad GALU also reported this error ("Compiling JDK 1.5 on recent
> > -CURRENT fails")
> 
> I have received several build failure reports on -CURRENT.  However, 
> all failures are i386 + GCC 4.2 + symbol versioning.  Something is 
> not right with the combination.  Unfortunately Greg is away at the 
> moment and I have very limited i386 resources to track it down.  Can 
> anyone help me on this?

I think it might be something to do with symbol versioning, but that is
only a guess at this point.  However, the failures do not seem indicative
of the newer gcc (they are coming from javac, not gcc/g++) and I can't
see why i386 would be special.

To be honest, supporting the jdk ports on -CURRENT is often a big time
sink for very little reward (often the errors disappear once the changes
settle down).  In fact, I really don't consider -CURRENT a supported
platform for them for this reason (there just aren't enough resources).

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