OpenJDK9/10 : sawindbg.dll / sawindbg.dll.manifest

[Alan Bateman]

On 17/11/2017 17:15, Erik Joelsson wrote:
> I don't know what the manifest file is for, but if it's in the wrong 
> place I would blame jlink for messing it up.
>
jlink doesn't know anything about Windows manifests files. I think the 
issue here is that jdk.hotspot.agent.jmod contains 
lib/sawindbg.dll.manifest and jlink will copy it into the run-time image 
lib directory as it's not a .dll/.pdb/.map file that needs special 
handling on Windows.

I think we need to establish if the .manifest file is needed. If it is 
needed then decide if it gets packaged into the bin or lib section of 
the JMOD file as that will determine if jlink  needs to special case 
these files.

-Alan