IcedTea 2.6.2 configuration: “llvm-config: error: components given, but unused”

Question

I'm configuring IcedTea 2.6.2 to build OpenJDK with ZeroShark. In order to make IcedTea I have installed the following dependency packages:

sudo apt-get install zip gawk xsltproc libjpeg8-dev libgif-dev libpng12-dev liblcms2-dev libgtk2.0-dev cups libcups2-dev libc6-dev libattr1-dev libalsa-ocaml-dev libsctp-dev libXtst-dev libffi-dev llvm-3.6-dev

Configuring IcedTea before making:

./configure --enable-zero --enable-shark --with-rhino=no 

But I'm stuck on this step. Below is the output of the configuration:

    checking for llvm-config... /usr/bin/llvm-config
llvm-config: error: components given, but unused

usage: llvm-config <OPTION>... [<COMPONENT>...]

Get various configuration information needed to compile programs which use
LLVM.  Typically called from 'configure' scripts.  Examples:
  llvm-config --cxxflags
  llvm-config --ldflags
  llvm-config --libs engine bcreader scalaropts

Options:
  --version         Print LLVM version.
  --prefix          Print the installation prefix.
  --src-root        Print the source root LLVM was built from.
  --obj-root        Print the object root used to build LLVM.
  --bindir          Directory containing LLVM executables.
  --includedir      Directory containing LLVM headers.
  --libdir          Directory containing LLVM libraries.
  --cppflags        C preprocessor flags for files that include LLVM headers.
  --cflags          C compiler flags for files that include LLVM headers.
  --cxxflags        C++ compiler flags for files that include LLVM headers.
  --ldflags         Print Linker flags.
  --system-libs     System Libraries needed to link against LLVM components.
  --libs            Libraries needed to link against LLVM components.
  --libnames        Bare library names for in-tree builds.
  --libfiles        Fully qualified library filenames for makefile depends.
  --components      List of all possible components.
  --targets-built   List of all targets currently built.
  --host-target     Target triple used to configure LLVM.
  --build-mode      Print build mode of LLVM tree (e.g. Debug or Release).
  --assertion-mode  Print assertion mode of LLVM tree (ON or OFF).
Typical components:
  all               All LLVM libraries (default).
  engine            Either a native JIT or a bitcode interpreter.
llvm-config: error: components given, but unused

usage: llvm-config <OPTION>... [<COMPONENT>...]

Get various configuration information needed to compile programs which use
LLVM.  Typically called from 'configure' scripts.  Examples:
  llvm-config --cxxflags
  llvm-config --ldflags
  llvm-config --libs engine bcreader scalaropts

Options:
  --version         Print LLVM version.
  --prefix          Print the installation prefix.
  --src-root        Print the source root LLVM was built from.
  --obj-root        Print the object root used to build LLVM.
  --bindir          Directory containing LLVM executables.
  --includedir      Directory containing LLVM headers.
  --libdir          Directory containing LLVM libraries.
  --cppflags        C preprocessor flags for files that include LLVM headers.
  --cflags          C compiler flags for files that include LLVM headers.
  --cxxflags        C++ compiler flags for files that include LLVM headers.
  --ldflags         Print Linker flags.
  --system-libs     System Libraries needed to link against LLVM components.
  --libs            Libraries needed to link against LLVM components.
  --libnames        Bare library names for in-tree builds.
  --libfiles        Fully qualified library filenames for makefile depends.
  --components      List of all possible components.
  --targets-built   List of all targets currently built.
  --host-target     Target triple used to configure LLVM.
  --build-mode      Print build mode of LLVM tree (e.g. Debug or Release).
  --assertion-mode  Print assertion mode of LLVM tree (ON or OFF).
Typical components:
  all               All LLVM libraries (default).
  engine            Either a native JIT or a bitcode interpreter.
checking for LLVMGetNextInstruction in -lLLVM-3.5.0... yes
checking that generated files are newer than configure... done
configure: creating ./config.status
config.status: creating Makefile
config.status: creating hotspot.map
config.status: creating fsg.sh
config.status: creating jconsole.desktop
config.status: creating policytool.desktop
config.status: creating nss.cfg
config.status: creating linux.fontconfig.Gentoo.properties
config.status: creating javac
config.status: creating javap
config.status: creating javah
config.status: creating tz.properties
config.status: creating pax-mark-vm
config.status: creating remove-intree-libraries.sh
config.status: creating tapset/hotspot.stp
config.status: creating tapset/hotspot_jni.stp
config.status: creating tapset/jstack.stp
config.status: creating tapset/hotspot_gc.stp
config.status: executing depfiles commands

I'm using X86_64 ubuntu. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Thank you

Answer 1

You need to use a very particular version of LLVM in order to use Shark. IIRC, it's something like 3.4 or similar (old) version.