RFR: 8010385: build with LOG=trace broken on mac

David Holmes david.holmes at oracle.com
Thu Jun 27 12:21:13 UTC 2013


On 27/06/2013 7:16 PM, Erik Joelsson wrote:
> Would be great if someone could take a look at this, thanks.

Looks reasonable to me.

David

> /Erik
>
> On 2013-06-18 16:38, Erik Joelsson wrote:
>> The log level 'trace' is broken on both mac and solaris. When trace is
>> used, the shell variable is overridden to do the following:
>>
>> 1. Add -x to echo each line that gets executed. This causes all
>> $(shell) expressions to be printed in addition to recipes.
>> 2. Add some text explaining if it's a $(shell) or a recipe, what rule
>> it belongs to and what triggered it.
>> 3. Add /usr/bin/time to each line and print the output to a special
>> log file
>>
>> What's failing on Mac and Solaris is 3 since the formatted output and
>> ability to print to a separate file is only available in GNU time. On
>> Solaris 1 is also failing due to the default shell, /bin/sh, not
>> seeming to like this.
>>
>> I solved 1 by overriding the shell with /bin/bash. We already require
>> bash for configure so this should be safe.
>>
>> For 3, if we don't have GNU time, we can't use the feature, so I let
>> configure check for this and disable it if not found.
>>
>> http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~erikj/8010385/webrev.root.01/
>>
>> /Erik



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