RFR: JDK-8189094: Change required boot jdk to JDK 9

[Erik Joelsson]

The ctsym generator in Gendata-jdk.compiler.gmk looks up the tool using 
the ToolProvider. That part of the change was just a reaction to ctsym 
generation failing.

/Erik


On 2017-10-17 17:47, mandy chung wrote:
> Hi Erik,
>
> On 10/16/17 6:12 AM, Erik Joelsson wrote:
>>
>> To generate the new modules, I copy the module-info.java files to a 
>> new gensrc dir and sed replace the module names. I also generate a 
>> new ToolProvider.java so that the default tools are taken from the 
>> interim modules.
>>
>> :
>>
>> Webrev: http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~erikj/8189094/webrev.01
>
> 65 java.compiler_EXTRA_FILES := 
> $(BUILDTOOLS_OUTPUTDIR)/gensrc/java.compiler.interim/javax/tools/ToolProvider.java
> 66 TARGETS += $(java.compiler_EXTRA_FILES)
>
>
> What issue did you run into without patching ToolProvider?  I have assumed
> the build always launches javac/javadoc main class and not using
> ToolProvider.
>
> 580 JAVAC_MAIN_CLASS = -m jdk.compiler.interim/com.sun.tools.javac.Main
> 581 JAVADOC_MAIN_CLASS = -m 
> jdk.javadoc.interim/jdk.javadoc.internal.tool.Main Mandy