RFR: JDK-8190744: xattr: No such file LICENSE files

[Alan Bateman]

On 08/11/2017 00:58, Erik Joelsson wrote:
> After my recent changes to the install-file macro and using of 
> SetupCopyFiles to generate the mac specific images, we have started 
> seeing errors like this in the build on mac:
>
> xattr: No such file: 
> /d/jdk/open/build/macosx-x86_64-normal-server-release/images/jre-bundle/jre-10.jre/Contents/Home/legal/java.activation/LICENSE
>
> This is caused by xattr being run on a symlink whose target does not 
> yet exist, which in turn is caused by concurrent execution. The simple 
> fix is to tell xattr to process the symlink itself rather than the 
> target, using the -s switch.
I've seen this several times so good to have this fixed. The change 
looks good.

-Alan