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momotaro

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JDK 6 build error on Windows, Visual Studio .NET on Japanese locale
Posted: Oct 13, 2006 9:46 PM

JDK 6 source snapshot for Windows, using Visual Studio .NET 2003 Compiler(32bit) Japanese edition, causes build error.
../../j2se/make/common/shared/Compiler-msvc.gmk:117: *** COMPILER_VERSION cannot be empty here. Stop.

This error has been long time and is in b102.

COMPILER_VERSION is decided from the compiler message in makefile. There are the logic of identifying the compiler version and type in j2se/make/common/shared/Compiler-msvc.gmk line:34-
CC_VER := $(shell $(CC) 2>&1 | $(HEAD) -n 1 | $(NAWK) '{print $$8}')
CC_TYPE := $(shell $(CC) 2>&1 | $(HEAD) -n 1 | $(NAWK) '{print $$5}')

This logic may expect the Compiler message as following.
Microsoft (R) 32-bit C/C++ Optimizing Compiler Version 13.10.3077 for 80x86

Unfortunately, Visual Studio .NET 2003 Compiler Japanese edition outputs the Compiler message as following.
Microsoft(R) 32-bit C/C++ Optimizing Compiler Version 13.10.3077 for 80x86

Note) there is a difference at 1st and 2nd word, Japanese edition lacks a space between 'Microsoft' and '(R)'.

So, CC_VER and CC_TYPE variable has wrong value.

A workaround is, to modify the makefile to change the awk print position $$8 -> $$7 and $$5 -> $$4.
But it's a pain to modify every download and build time.

So, It would be better to treat these differences in the makefile. I have a modification idea to fix this problem.

CC_VER := $(shell $(CC) 2>&1 | $(HEAD) -n 1 | $(SED) 's/Microsoft(R)\(.*\)/Microsoft (R)\1/' | $(NAWK) '{print $$8}')
CC_TYPE := $(shell $(CC) 2>&1 | $(HEAD) -n 1 | $(SED) 's/Microsoft(R)\(.*\)/Microsoft (R)\1/' | $(NAWK) '{print $$5}')