I wanted to build hsdis for my Ubuntu system. Virtually all of the instructions out there are slightly wrong. As per the comment on this gist a recent change (bbd1da3f538f) to the HotSpot source to be compatible with binutils 2.29 broke all the prior instructions. So literally.. my contribution here is to publicly point this out and offer copy and pasta instructions to solve it.
sudo apt-get install libgmp-dev libmpfr-dev libmpc-dev g++-multilib mercurial texinfo hg clone http://hg.openjdk.java.net/jdk8u/jdk8u cd jdk8u hg update jdk8u92-b14 sed -ri 's/subrepos="[^"]+"/subrepos="hotspot"/' ./make/scripts/hgforest.sh # only get hotspot sed -ri 's/subrepos="[^"]+"/subrepos="hotspot"/' ./common/bin/hgforest.sh # only get hotspot chmod +x ./get_source.sh; ./get_source.sh cd hotspot/src/share/tools/hsdis wget http://ftp.heanet.ie/mirrors/ftp.gnu.org/gnu/binutils/binutils-2.29.tar.gz tar -xzf binutils-2.29.tar.gz sed -ri 's/development=.*/development=false/' ./binutils-2.29/bfd/development.sh # set development to false make BINUTILS=binutils-2.29 ARCH=amd64 sudo cp build/linux-amd64/hsdis-amd64.so /usr/lib/jvm/java-8-openjdk-amd64/jre/lib/amd64/server/
Gist: https://gist.github.com/kay/ec70aa7469d216ab88eb411d8dab187d
