RFR: JDK-8166937: [Solaris] Missing libjvm_db.so and libjvm_dtrace.so from JDK 9 b138

Wed Oct 12 09:10:33 UTC 2016

On 2016-10-11 12:18, Erik Joelsson wrote:
> On Solaris, we used to always add /usr/sbin to the global PATH early 
> in configure since some tools we need are found there. In JDK-8165161 
> that was removed. This had the consequence that configure no longer 
> found dtrace unless the user had /usr/sbin in the PATH. When configure 
> doesn't find dtrace, it will by default simply disable dtrace support 
> in the hotspot build. This patch fixes two things.
>
> * Since Oracle builds on Solaris expect dtrace to be enabled, I added 
> --enable-dtrace to the Jib configuration for Solaris profiles. That 
> way we get an early failure if dtrace is missing.
>
> * I added /usr/sbin to the path specifically when searching for dtrace 
> since that is a known location for the tool that is not always present 
> in the user path.
>
> Bug: https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-8166937
>
> Webrev: http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~erikj/8166937/webrev.01/

Looks good to me.

/Magnus