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

[Erik Joelsson]

Hello Martin,


On 2017-10-17 19:54, Martin Buchholz wrote:
> Does $(INTERIM_LANGTOOLS_MODULES_COMMA) need to be repeated below?  I 
> would think you could drop it from --limit-modules
> +INTERIM_LANGTOOLS_ARGS := \
> +    --limit-modules java.base,jdk.zipfs,$(INTERIM_LANGTOOLS_MODULES_COMMA) \
> +    --add-modules $(INTERIM_LANGTOOLS_MODULES_COMMA) \
>
--limit-modules is needed because jdk.compiler.interim contains the same 
packages as the system modules jdk.compiler, so we need to prevent the 
runtime from resolving jdk.compiler (and the other base interim modules).

I spent a lot of trial and error before arriving at the set of arguments 
used here.

/Erik