Username handling in USER_RELEASE_SUFFIX

Magnus Ihse Bursie magnus.ihse.bursie at oracle.com
Mon Sep 16 08:23:32 UTC 2013


On 2013-09-15 20:13, Ludovic HOCHET wrote:
> Hello,
> I've been wondering for a while why my username on Windows was not picked
> up properly.
> As it turn out in common\autoconf\jdk-options.m4 and generated-configure
> strip out upper cased letters from the username which I find strange since
> that username is turned into the USER_RELEASE_SUFFIX which replaces upper
> cases with lower cases.
> What would be the reason for it (and can it be changed to include upper
> cased letters from the username) ?
>
> (as an aside, on line 214 of common\autoconf\basics_windows.m4, precense
> should probably be presence)
>
Agreed, this is a bug. Thank you for pointing it out!

I opened JDK-8024849; I'll post a review for a fix shortly.

/Magnus




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