Project Proposal: Build Infrastructure Changes

[Omair Majid]

On 05/03/2011 04:13 PM, Mike Swingler wrote:
> On May 3, 2011, at 11:27 AM, Kelly O'Hair wrote:
>
>> On May 3, 2011, at 10:16 AM, Keith McGuigan wrote:
>>
>> The number of issues with that gamma/Queens makefile logic is too
>> high, and it's not something we ship anyway. In my opinion, we
>> should be restricting ourselves to building what we ship as part of
>> the product, or what we need to make that build happen. So in my
>> opinion, the whole thing needs to be moved to the hotspot/test
>> area.
>>
>> In addition, the gamma launcher code is riddled with
>> troublesome/buggy code that gets little attention, mostly because
>> it isn't shipped as part of the product. If you guys want this code
>> as part of the build, it needs some attention. If it is just a test
>> case, then isolate it and make it one.
>>
>> We need to do a better job of separating out the building logic
>> from the testing logic.
>>
>> Just my 2 cents... ;^)
>
> Here here!
>
> In the macosx-port we explicitly added a hook to ignore the gamma
> test because cross compiling with the Apple Java SE 6 (which is how
> _everyone_ gets off the ground) is impossible otherwise.
>

We have the same problem in IcedTea. We have a patch that disables the 
gamma test so we can bootstrap openjdk with gcj. A proper way to skip 
the gamma test will be very useful.

Cheers,
Omair