Review request: 8055856: checkdeps build target doesn't work for cross-compilation builds

[Mandy Chung]

On 8/27/2014 3:19 AM, Magnus Ihse Bursie wrote:
> On 2014-08-27 10:26, Erik Joelsson wrote:
>> Hello Mandy,
>>
>> Looking at this, I just realized that 
>> $(JDK_OUTPUTDIR)/modules/jdk.dev/com/sun/tools/jdeps/resources/jdeps-modules.xml 
>> is a generated resource for a module and that you correctly added it 
>> to the gendata target. Then to make it fit with the new makefile 
>> model, the running of TOOL_GENMODULESXML should be moved to 
>> jdk/make/gendata/Gendata-jdk.dev.gmk, which would make it be run 
>> automatically with correct dependencies. ModulesXml.gmk should also 
>> probably be renamed to something better describing the checkdeps 
>> target, which is all it would be doing then. Perhaps it would also 
>> fit better in the root make dir.
>>
>> I can understand if fixing the cross compilation issue is urgent and 
>> am fine with you pushing this to fix that, but would like to see it 
>> further improved eventually.
>
> I agree. The changes look good, but as Erik suggests, they can be 
> taken even further, possibly in a separate fix. Perhaps the name 
> "CheckModules.gmk" would be better suite than ModulesXml.gmk, when the 
> gendata part has been separated out?

jdeps-modules.xml contains the membership information of all modules.  I 
considered adding Gendata-jdk.dev.gmk but it would have to the last 
target to run for building exploded image (after jdk.dev classes are 
compiled).   Do you think that'd be doable?

Currently modules-xml has a dependency on "java" target.

Mandy