RFR: 7133124 Remove redundant packages from JAR command line

Georges Saab georges.saab at oracle.com
Thu Jan 26 22:47:24 UTC 2012


On 26 jan 2012, at 13:56, David Holmes wrote:

> On 26/01/2012 10:02 PM, Rickard Bäckman wrote:
>> On 01/26/2012 12:50 PM, David Holmes wrote:
>>> Change looks fine, but then so did the original! Will this be handled
>>> correctly by all versions of the jar command?
>> 
>> We, have checked the contents of the version that RE is using (1.6.0_1
>> or something like that) and the one JPRT is using (1.6.0_18) and locally
>> on my machine (1.7.0) I don't think I'll be able to verify _all_
>> versions of jar. It seems the "faulty" behavior of "jar" was fixed in
>> 1.6.0_18 which is the first version I could find that didn't cause the
>> error on the previous code. I would rather hope that we could try to use
>> one and the same version across all kind of builds of the same jdk
>> version. It would help to catch this kind of errors earlier...
> 
> Sorry I meant "all versions of jar that we might build with" :)
> 
> I think the normal RE process is to build JDK N with the FCS version of JDK N-1, which would explain why the old JDK 6 jar is being used. JPRT has changes to the bootjdks made "on demand".
> 
> As long as we target both 7u and 8 we will be using two different toolsets. But I agree that JPRT and RE should be using the same tools. That needs to be taken up with RE and Kelly.

Ideally not just using the same tools, but they should _be_ the same systems.  But I digress...


> 
> Thanks,
> David
> 
>> Thanks
>> /R
>> 
>>> 
>>>> Thanks
>>>> /Rickard
>> 




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