RFR: JDK-8174172: Race when building java.base.jmod

[Alan Bateman]

On 08/02/2017 11:33, Erik Joelsson wrote:

> When building java.base.jmod, we use --hash-modules to include hashes 
> of all the non upgradeable jmods in java.base.jmod. The make 
> dependencies are setup to make sure all non upgradeable jmods are 
> built before java.base.jmod. In some cases, this risks failing because 
> we have a non upgradeable module which depends on an upgradeable 
> module. If this upgradeable module is not available to the jmod tool, 
> it will fail.
>
> The solution is to add all jmods as prerequisites to building 
> java.base.jmod instead of just the non upgradeable ones.
This looks okay although ideally we should not have non upgradeable 
modules depending on upgradeable modules.

-Alan.