RFR: JDK-8215445: Enable building for Windows in WSL

[Andrew Luo]

Hi Magnus,

For DEBUG_FIXPATH, I added it to WSLENV so that users can set DEBUG_FIXPATH when running make to get the debug output from fixpath.  It doesn’t turn it on by default, only if you do, for example, “DEBUG_FIXPATH=1 make”.  Otherwise, if we leave it out, that environment variable won’t get propagated from WSL to Win32 so it might confuse users who don’t know they have to add it to WSLENV.  But if you think it should be removed anyways, I am not against it.

We solved the extra output by adding code to fixpath to set Path to FIXPATH_PATH.  That part of toolchain.m4 occurs before FIXPATH is even built, so it does need that extra filtering still.

Thanks,

-Andrew

From: Magnus Ihse Bursie <magnus.ihse.bursie at oracle.com>
Sent: Thursday, December 20, 2018 10:55 AM
To: Erik Joelsson <erik.joelsson at oracle.com>; build-dev <build-dev at openjdk.java.net>; Andrew Luo <andrewluotechnologies at outlook.com>
Subject: Re: RFR: JDK-8215445: Enable building for Windows in WSL

On 2018-12-20 13:47, Erik Joelsson wrote:

Hello,

Thanks to huge help from Andrew Luo, we now have a patch that adds support for building OpenJDK for Windows using WSL as the Unix layer instead of Cygwin. I have made some adjustments, mostly to keep it working in Cygwin. I have also run it through some testing, mostly to make sure there are no regressions to the current Cygwin support. This includes a COMPARE run which showed no regressions as well as comparing a WSL and Cygwin build, which showed no unexpected differences.

I'm happy to see that on my Windows Workstation, the time to run "make bundles" is considerably faster in WSL, about 8m40s compared to 12m55s.
That's really good news!


It should be noted that testing is still not fully supported. We will likely need to adjust some tests to work correctly in WSL and it's also possible that jtreg will also need adjustments.

(For internal Oracle developers, Jib does not support WSL yet)

Bug: https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-8215445

Webrev: http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~erikj/8215445/webrev.02/index.html
A few remarks:

* In the documentation:



(either by setting the individual

+directory as case insensitive using fsutil
This should probably read something like "all individual directories in the source code tree", since it is not enough to modify the top level directory (case sensitivity flag is not inherited).

* In Images.gmk, I still believe the proper solution is to use FIXPATH, instead of EXE_SUFFIX.

* In spec.gmk.in:


+    export WSLENV:=$(WSLENV):FIXPATH_PATH:DEBUG_FIXPATH

Maybe we don't need DEBUG_FIXPATH? Leftover from a debug session?

* In toolchain.m4, I think this is a left-over from an older version before the path rewriting:


+    COMPILER_VERSION_OUTPUT=`"$COMPILER" 2>&1 | $GREP -v 'ERROR.*UtilTranslatePathList' | $HEAD -n 1 | $TR -d '\r'`
(and a similar at line ~1000).


Apart from these minor issues, the patch looks great! Fantastic work, Andrew and Erik!

/Magnus



/Erik