How to set build version

[Erik Joelsson]

Hello,

 From what I can tell, you are doing it right. Did you do a clean build 
after you reran configure? Changing the version information does not 
correctly trigger an incremental build of all uses of the version 
information.

/Erik

On 2014-08-22 03:13, Medi Montaseri wrote:
> Trying build-dev at openjdk.java.net
>
> I think the jtreg-dev was a wrong DL to begin with.
>
> Medi
> ________________________________
> From: Medi Montaseri
> Sent: Thursday, August 21, 2014 3:03 PM
> To: jtreg-dev at openjdk.java.net
> Subject: How to set build version
>
> Hi,
>
> I currently get the following version info when I build my JDK
>
> java -version
> openjdk version "1.8.0-20140820"
> OpenJDK Runtime Environment (build 1.8.0-20140820-mmontaseri_2014_08_20_18_26-b00)
> OpenJDK 64-Bit Server VM (build 25.0-b69, mixed mode)
>
> Note the "mmontaseri" in the build-id, this token "mmontaseri" is the value of $USER who build it.
>  From jdk8src/common/autoconf/generated-configure.sh , I deduced that this can be changed via USER_RELEASE_SUFFIX which on the configure line, one would say
>
> ./configure --with-user-release-suffix=HDS --with-build-number=nnnn
>
> After doing so, I see the following in the spec.gmk file
>
> egrep -e 'USER_RELEASE_SUFFIX|COOKED_BUILD_NUMBER' jdk8src/build/linux-x86_64-normal-server-release/spec.gmk
> USER_RELEASE_SUFFIX=HDS
> COOKED_BUILD_NUMBER:=nnnn
>
> But the output of "java -version" still shows
> OpenJDK Runtime Environment (build 1.8.0-20140820-mmontaseri_2014_08_20_18_26-b00)
>
> Am I not going about this the right way? Is there another param that I need to set at configure
>
> Thanks
> Medi
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