RFR: JDK-8072904: building jdk9 with jdk9 boot jdk can cause failure or incorrect results

[Erik Joelsson]

Hello,

New webrev: http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~erikj/8072904/webrev.hotspot.02/

On 2015-02-11 10:53, David Holmes wrote:
> Hi Erik,
>
> On 11/02/2015 7:23 PM, Erik Joelsson wrote:
>> Hello,
>>
>> Please review this change to how javah is run on sa classes. Since the
>> sa classes in JDK 9 are now in a module instead of sa-jdi.jar, they are
>> (at least currently) available from the default bootclasspath. This
>> means that just setting -classpath to javah will not properly override
>> the versions of the classes found in the boot jdk with the versions
>> currently being built. The fix is to change -classpath with
>> -Xbootclasspath/p:.
>
> Seems like a temporary workaround. javah should have a way to indicate 
> which class to process without assuming it comes from the JVM used to 
> run javah. Also putting what was sa-jdi.jar on the bootclasspath seems 
> somewhat misplaced - these aren't "boot" classes.
>
It was also pointed out to me that -Xbootclasspath is not future proof. 
So instead I opted for a different solution, using the new javac flag -h 
and the @Native annotation to automatically generate header files during 
compilation.
>> Bug: https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-8072904
>> Webrev: http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~erikj/8072904/webrev.hotspot.01/
>
> Were are the changes for all the other (non-linux) platforms? :)
>
Right, I forgot about that. *sigh* This time I made the changes in all 
the makefiles.

/Erik