RFR: JDK-8170528: Race condition with release file creation

[David Holmes]

Hi Erik,

Seems reasonable. Only query I have is defining BASE_RELEASE_FILE in two 
places ?

Thanks,
David

On 30/11/2016 9:17 PM, Erik Joelsson wrote:
> The release file is part of all product images in the build. We used to
> generate it for each image individually, but a while back, we changed to
> generate it just for the exploded image, and then let jlink use the one
> as source for generating individually modified release files for each
> linked image.
>
> The problem is that the release file is still generated in Images.gmk,
> which is called multiple times. This means each call to this file may
> try to generate the release file at the same time, which may result in a
> corrupt release file.
>
> This patch moves the creation of the base release file to a separate
> build step.
>
> Bug: https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-8170528
>
> Webrev: http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~erikj/8170528/webrev.01
>
> /Erik
>