Help with using jtreg to verify build needed

[Mike Duigou]

I have created JDK-8019481 to improve detection of jtreg located on the path.

Jon's advice about getting a more recent version of jtreg than what ubuntu provides almost certainly applies as well.

Mike

On Jul 8 2013, at 22:59 , Matthew Butner wrote:

> Not sure if this is the right place to ask or not, and if it isn't, please
> direct me to the correct forum but I have been trying all day to use jtreg
> to test my jdk 1.8 build with no success.
> 
> Here is my problem:
> I am running ubuntu and have used the apt center to install jtreg. This
> means that jtreg and jtdiff are installed under /usr/bin. When I run the
> configure script it does not automatically detect jtreg and when I try
> running it with the --with-jtreg=/usr/bin/jtreg or /usr/bin it fails
> because it is trying to find the executable inside subdirectories that do
> not exist because I did not install jtreg from source.
> 
> I tried to work around this by modifying line 16463
> JTREGEXE="$JT_HOME/win32/bin/jtreg"
> to
> JTREGEXE="$JT_HOME/jtreg"
> 
> which made it detect jtreg but the command in the readme
> *cd test && make PRODUCT_HOME=`pwd`/../build/*/images/j2sdk-image all
> 
> *still fails because it is still trying to look in
> /usr/bin/win32/bin/jtreg
> 
> and win32/bin/jtreg does not exist.
> 
> Any help would be greatly welcome but if possible I don't want to have to
> install jtreg from source as that is a whole other can of worms.
> 
> Thank you,
> Matthew