RFR JDK-8129562: JDK 9 build using boot-jdk classes instead of newly compiled classes

[Jan Lahoda]

Hello,

Any comments on this?

Thanks,
     Jan

On 27.7.2015 13:49, Jan Lahoda wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Bug:
> https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-8129562
>
> As part of the fix for JDK-8054717, CompileJavaModules.gmk is now using
> an "empty" bootclasspath (classes like java.lang.Object are loaded from
> the ordinary classpath as needed). Unfortunately, javac is still using
> the default ext and endorsed dirs (if available in the boot JDK), and
> classes that are in the ext dirs have precedence over the classes from
> the classpath. Which may cause compilation problems with the ext dirs
> contain an older version of a class.
>
> The proposal is to make ext and endorsed dirs "empty" as well (both ext
> and endorsed dirs will contain one entry, and the entry will be an empty
> directory):
> http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~jlahoda/8129562/webrev.00/
>
> What do you think?
>
> Thanks,
>      Jan