Build hsdis for JDK 1.8u92 on Ubuntu 17.10 Artful

hsdis-ubuntu.sh

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-2.26.tar.gz
tar -xzf binutils-2.26.tar.gz
sed -ri 's/development=.*/development=false/' ./binutils-2.26/bfd/development.sh # set development to false
make BINUTILS=binutils-2.26 ARCH=amd64
sudo cp build/linux-amd64/hsdis-amd64.so /usr/lib/jvm/java-8-openjdk-amd64/jre/lib/amd64/server/

This script needs some adjustment

As of recent changes to hotspot (see http://hg.openjdk.java.net/jdk8u/jdk8u/hotspot/rev/bbd1da3f538f) the code was changed to only support binutils-2.29 and later. Thus the only change I had to make to the above script was to use 2.29 and then everything worked fine.

This problem manifests like this during the make step:

hsdis.c: In function ‘setup_app_data’:
hsdis.c:340:32: error: incompatible type for argument 1 of ‘disassembler’
   app_data->dfn = disassembler(bfd_get_arch(native_bfd),
                                ^~~~~~~~~~~~
In file included from hsdis.c:60:0:
/home/kay/src/public/jdk8u/hotspot/src/share/tools/hsdis/binutils-2.26/include/dis-asm.h:341:27: note: expected ‘bfd * {aka struct bfd *}’ but argument is of type ‘enum bfd_architecture’
 extern disassembler_ftype disassembler (bfd *);
                           ^~~~~~~~~~~~
hsdis.c:340:19: error: too many arguments to function ‘disassembler’
   app_data->dfn = disassembler(bfd_get_arch(native_bfd),
                   ^~~~~~~~~~~~
In file included from hsdis.c:60:0:
/home/kay/src/public/jdk8u/hotspot/src/share/tools/hsdis/binutils-2.26/include/dis-asm.h:341:27: note: declared here
 extern disassembler_ftype disassembler (bfd *);
                           ^~~~~~~~~~~~
Makefile:220: recipe for target 'build/linux-amd64/hsdis-amd64.so' failed
make: *** [build/linux-amd64/hsdis-amd64.so] Error 1

This fork has the patched script: https://gist.github.com/kay/ec70aa7469d216ab88eb411d8dab187d