Kelly writes in reference to:

sh /tmp/jprt/P1/B/212610.coleenp/source/make/linux/makefiles/build_vm_def.sh *.o > vm.def
/tmp/jprt/P1/B/212610.coleenp/source/make/linux/makefiles/build_vm_def.sh: line 10: /opt/jprt/products/P1/ccache2.4/bin/nm: No such file or directory

If nm doesn't exist, then this shell script will fail, but return exit code 0, and the makefile will not stop but create a bogus mapfile, which may or may not allow libjvm.so to link. I think this shell script needs to use 'set -e' or do something like (nm || exit 1) | awk or maybe both. Can we fix this shell script?

In addition. I'd like to see some makefile verifications that the tools actually exist, something like

# Check fullpath tool
define filecheck # fullpath
$(if $(wildcard $1),$1,$(error "ERROR: File does not exist: $1"))
endef

# Check tools
ifdef CROSS_COMPILE_ARCH
  ifdef ALT_COMPILER_PATH
    CC := $(call filecheck,$(ALT_COMPILER_PATH)/gcc)
    CPP := $(call filecheck,$(ALT_COMPILER_PATH)/g++)
    NM := $(call filecheck,$(ALT_COMPILER_PATH)/nm)
    STRIP := $(call filecheck,$(ALT_COMPILER_PATH)/strip)
  endif
endif

David adds: in addition to above issues when a link error does occur the makefiles will create invalid self-links eg:

[ -f libjsig.so ] || { ln -s libjsig.so libjsig.so; }

If the lib does not exist then we create a symbolic link that points to itself! This happens for all the main libs and the gamma executable. If creation of the .so or executable fails then we get a self-link created, and that then causes errors on subsequent attempts to rebuild as stat will report an error "Too many levels of symbolic links". You then have to manually delete the symbolic link to proceed.