Here's an email I've sent a while back on this issue:

The build log file and hs log files are attached.
(they're preytty old, but the same failure is still happening as of
tiger beta b26)

The crash:
../../../../../src/share/classes/java/util/zip/ZipInputStream.java ../../../../../src/share/classes/java/util/zip/ZipOutputStrea
java ../../../../../src/solaris/classes/java/io/UnixFileSystem.java ; fi
# To suppress the following error report, specify this argument
# after -XX: or in .hotspotrc: SuppressErrorAt=/tenuredGeneration.cpp:139]
#
# An unexpected error has been detected by HotSpot Virtual Machine:
#
# Internal Error (/BUILD_AREA/jdk1.5.0/hotspot/src/share/vm/memory/tenuredGeneration.cpp, 139), pid=23727, tid=1026
#
# Java VM: Java HotSpot(TM) 64-Bit Server VM (1.5.0-beta-b23-debug interpreted mode)
#
# Error: assert(minimum_desired_capacity <= maximum_desired_capacity,"sanity check")
# An error report file with more information is saved as hs_err_pid23727.log
#
# If you would like to submit a bug report, please visit:
# http://java.sun.com/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi
#
VM option 'ThreadStackSize=1536'
Current thread is 1026
Dumping core ...
gnumake[6]: *** [.compile.classlist] Error 134
gnumake[6]: Leaving directory `/export/nightly/2d/ws.tiger/make/sun/javac/recompile/library'
gnumake[5]: *** [debug] Error 2
gnumake[5]: Leaving directory `/export/nightly/2d/ws.tiger/make/sun/javac/recompile/library'
gnumake[4]: *** [all] Error 1
gnumake[4]: Leaving directory `/export/nightly/2d/ws.tiger/make/sun/javac/recompile'
gnumake[3]: *** [all] Error 1
gnumake[3]: Leaving directory `/export/nightly/2d/ws.tiger/make/sun/javac'
gnumake[2]: *** [all] Error 2
gnumake[2]: Leaving directory `/export/nightly/2d/ws.tiger/make/java/javac'
gnumake[1]: *** [all] Error 1
gnumake[1]: Leaving directory `/export/nightly/2d/ws.tiger/make/java'
gnumake: *** [all] Error 1

Paul Rank has determined that removing -J-Xmaxf1 from the javac_g arguments
is the workaround (the crash is believed to be caused by hs bug 4932826).

The suggestion was to remove this flag from the j2se makefiles.

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