Configuration script unable to detect boot JDK's modules support

[Filipp Zhinkin]

Hi Erik, thanks for reply.

Do we need a JBS's ticket to track this issue?

Thanks,
Filipp.

On Thu, Mar 31, 2016 at 5:23 PM, Erik Joelsson <erik.joelsson at oracle.com> wrote:
> It seems the test is indeed incorrect at this point. When I added that test,
> the launcher would accept just -Xpatch:. It seems to now accept -Xpatch:foo
> so perhaps we should use that for the test.
>
> /Erik
>
>
> On 2016-03-31 09:56, Filipp Zhinkin wrote:
>>
>> Hi all,
>>
>> I'm trying to build OpenJDK from latest sources using JDK9-b111 as a boot
>> JDK
>> and configuration script is not able to detect modules support:
>>
>> $ bash configure --enable-option-checking=fatal
>> --with-jvm-variants=server --with-debug-level=release
>> --disable-headful --with-boot-jdk=/home/filipp/Downloads/bootdir/jdk-9
>> --with-jtreg=/home/filipp/Development/openjdk/jtreg
>> ...
>> $ grep modules build/linux-x86_64-normal-server-release/configure.log
>> checking if Boot JDK supports modules... no
>>
>> I've looked into common/autoconf/boot-jdk.m4 to find out how modules
>> support is detected and we simply pass '-Xpatch:' to JVM [1]:
>>
>> jdk-9/bin/java -Xpatch: -version
>> Bad value for -Xpatch.
>> Error: Could not create the Java Virtual Machine.
>> Error: A fatal exception has occurred. Program will exit.
>>
>> Am I missing something or that check should actually pass
>> -Xpatch:blablabla?
>>
>> Regards,
>> Filipp.
>>
>> [1]
>> http://hg.openjdk.java.net/jdk9/jdk9/file/03543a758cd5/common/autoconf/boot-jdk.m4#l308
>
>