RFR: JDK-8149479: Fix compare.sh to have a clean baseline with COMPARE_BUILD

[Magnus Ihse Bursie]

On 2016-02-10 14:11, Erik Joelsson wrote:
> Hello Tim,
>
> New webrev: http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~erikj/8149479/webrev.02/
>
> I agree about 1, so I started looking at it. Got confused why any 
> changes to it didn't seem to have any effect until I realized the docs 
> are no longer compared, which is what that was added for. So I fixed 
> comparing of docs and reduced the sed expressions to what is actually 
> necessary today, which was much less.
>
> 2 was indeed a typo and it could have hidden compare failures in my 
> JPRT runs. Luckily, it was still clean.
>
> I also fixed the comment Magnus pointed out.
Almost, at least. ;-)

You lost a colon:

- # Syntax: COMPARE_BUILD=CONF=<configure options>:PATCH=<patch file>:
+ # Syntax: COMPARE_BUILD=CONF=<configure options>:PATCH=<patch file>


If you just restore that colon, I'm fine with the new version.

/Magnus

>
> /Erik
>
> On 2016-02-10 07:13, Tim Bell wrote:
>> Erik:
>>
>>> Please review these fixes for compare.sh and the COMPARE_BUILD flag 
>>> for make.
>>>
>>> The rather new feature COMPARE_BUILD, which builds twice, applying 
>>> some kind of change between them, is really neat. Especially when 
>>> run through JPRT to check all platforms at once. The problem is that 
>>> compare.sh currently isn't clean on all these platforms. There are 
>>> also some special peculiarities particular to when JPRT is running 
>>> the build which confuses compare.sh.
>>>
>>> Given that COMPARE_BUILD uses the exact same output directory, and 
>>> JPRT sets the version-opt string to a fix value for both builds, we 
>>> should be able to achieve a clean and stable baseline for an empty 
>>> patch file. Which I now have.
>>>
>>> I also changed COMPARE_BUILD to fail the build when differences are 
>>> found and added an option to COMPARE_BUILD to disable failing.
>>>
>>> Bug: https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-8149479
>>> Webrev: http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~erikj/8149479/webrev.01/
>>
>> 1) Regarding common/bin/compare.sh lines 336...341 and lines 
>> 344...349 in the new version - this is not directly related to 
>> 8149479 but I wish those regexes were only coded once.  If they ever 
>> get out of sync the results will be puzzling.
>>
>> 2) make/InitSupport.gmk line 366 in the new version - typo? 
>> COMPARE_BUILD_FAILE is COMPARE_BUILD_FAIL elsewhere
>>
>> Looks good otherwise.
>>
>> Tim
>>
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