jdk10 on macOS

[Jonathan Gibbons]

Alan,

I confirm there are problems with the jtreg builds from the Adopt 
OpenJDK group. I'll investigate what we can do to fix this.

-- Jon

On 01/05/2018 12:36 PM, Jonathan Gibbons wrote:
> That sounds like a problem using an older build of jtreg, from the 
> Adopt OpenJDK group. The tell-tale evidence is the Class-Path entry in 
> the jtreg.jar MANIFEST.MF file:  does that entry include asmtools.jar?
>
> There have been build changes for jtreg recently, that should have 
> addressed this problem. If nothing else, it is now much easier to 
> build jtreg yourself. The only external components you need are Ant 
> and a recent JDK, such as JDK 8. Everything else will be downloaded, 
> and built if necessary.
>
> -- Jon
>
>
> On 1/5/18 12:21 PM, Alan Snyder wrote:
>> I am trying to build jdk10 on macOS 10.12.6. I got the basic build to 
>> work, but some tests fail.
>>
>> Most of the test failures complain about not finding jasm or jcoder. 
>> This is odd because I downloaded jtreg-4.2-b11, which includes these 
>> classes, and the classpath appears to be correct in the log.
>>
>> I got an error from StringPlatformChars, which could find native 
>> code. Could be the same jasm problem but not reported as such.
>>
>> I got an error from NewUnsafeString, did not use provided string.
>>
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