Review Request: Build-infra update

[Kelly O'Hair]

Has anyone tried creating an unused native method declaration in the class to trigger the native header
generation?   public native void GenerateNativeHeader();   ???  Is that too ugly?

-kto

On May 23, 2012, at 8:01 AM, Jonathan Gibbons wrote:

> On 05/23/2012 01:00 AM, Alan Bateman wrote:
>> On 23/05/2012 08:30, Erik Joelsson wrote:
>>> 
>>> I'm also not sure if Alan's comment was a blocker. The idea with GenerateNativeHeader was approved by Jon Gibbon's initially at least. Alan?
>> I don't like holding things up but I do think this needs wider consideration.
>> 
>> -Alan
> 
> There are various solutions here.
> 
> 1. revert to using javah for selected files
> 2. give javac a list of classnames for which to generate a native header
> 3. move the annotation to somewhere like java.lang.annotation
> 4. fix Jigsaw
> 
> None of the first 3 are attractive. The last one may be difficult, but at some
> point, it will be necessary.  The problems with @GenerateNativeHeader are
> not specific to this particular annotation, but rather to any annotation
> with RetentionPolicy.SOURCE.  However, the problems are somewhat
> exacerbated by the use of the annotation in the base module, where we
> are on delicate bootstrapping ground.
> 
> -- Jon
> 
>