[MESOS-2216] The "configure" phase breaks with the IBM JVM.

• Type: Bug
• Status: In Progress
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Unresolved
• Affects Version/s: 0.20.1, 1.0.0

Environment

Ubuntu / x86_64

• Assignee: Jihun Kang
• Reporter: Tony Reix
• Created: 13/Jan/15 17:12
• Updated: 09/Jun/16 08:43

Description

./configure does not work with IBM JVM, since it looks for a directory:
/usr/lib/jvm/ibm-java-x86_64-71/jre/lib/amd64/server x86_64
/usr/lib/jvm/ibm-java-ppc64le-71/jre/lib/ppc64le/server PPC64 LE
that does not exist for the IBM JVM.

Though this directory does exist for Oracle JVM and Open JDK:
/usr/lib/jvm/jdk1.7.0_71/jre/lib/amd64/server Oracle JVM
/usr/lib/jvm/java-1.7.0-openjdk-amd64/jre/lib/amd64/server OpenJDK

However, the files:
libjsig.so
libjvm.so (3 versions)
do exist for IBM JVM.

Anyway, creating the server directory and copying the files (tried with the 3 versions of libjvm.so) does not fix the issue:
checking whether or not we can build with JNI... /usr/lib/jvm/ibm-java-x86_64-71/jre/lib/amd64/server/libjvm.so: undefined reference to `dlopen'
/usr/lib/jvm/ibm-java-x86_64-71/jre/lib/amd64/server/libjvm.so: undefined reference to `dlclose'
/usr/lib/jvm/ibm-java-x86_64-71/jre/lib/amd64/server/libjvm.so: undefined reference to `dlerror'
/usr/lib/jvm/ibm-java-x86_64-71/jre/lib/amd64/server/libjvm.so: undefined reference to `dlsym'
/usr/lib/jvm/ibm-java-x86_64-71/jre/lib/amd64/server/libjvm.so: undefined reference to `dladdr'
Something (dlopen, dlclose, dlerror, dlsym, dladdr) is missing in IBM JVM.

So, either the configure step relies on a feature that is not in the Java standard but only in the Oracle JVM and OpenJDK, or the IBM JVM lacks part of the Java standard.
I'm not an expert about this. So, I'd like Mesos people to experiment with IBM JVM. Maybe there is another solution for this step of the Mesos configure that would work with all 3 JVMs.