(urgent) RFR: JDK-8154292: jdk9-dev: All SE builds failed on 2016-04-14

[Erik Joelsson]

This is currently breaking RE builds in 9-dev. None of our normal build 
reviewers are available today. Looking for help.

/Erik

On 2016-04-15 11:55, Erik Joelsson wrote:
> The change to start building the jtreg failure handler introduced a 
> required build dependency on jtreg to be able to build a test-image. 
> That's wasn't intentional. It should be possible to build the tests 
> without having jtreg available. This patch adds a configure arg: 
> "--enable-jtreg-failure-handler" which controls if the failure handler 
> should be built. It can be true, false or auto, the default is auto. 
> In auto mode, the failure handler is built if jtreg is available. When 
> true, missing jtreg becomes an error. When false, the build simply 
> skips building the failure handler.
>
> I also added --enable-jtreg-failure-handler to the default jib 
> configure arguments to enforce building with it in Oracle official 
> builds. Jib is already providing jtreg anyway.
>
> Bug: https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-8154292
> Webrev: http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~erikj/8154292/webrev.top.01/
>
> /Erik