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

[Jonathan Gibbons]

Looks good to me, but we need a build-dev Reviewer.

-- Jon

On 08/04/2015 02:11 PM, Jan Lahoda wrote:
> 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