jdk10 on macOS

[David Holmes]

On 19/01/2018 3:20 AM, Alan Snyder wrote:
> I tried building from the jdk repo (vs jdk10). The StringPlatformChars test passed. The other four tests appear to have been removed.
> 
> However, I did get failures on these tests:
> 
> 	• MethodHandleConstants (internal error: appendix)
 > 	• MethodReferenceTestMethodHandle (internal error: appendix)

https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-8194963

> 	• JavadocHelperTest (out of memory — Java heap space)

Common problem with javadoc.

David
> 
> 
>> On Jan 17, 2018, at 2:24 PM, David Holmes <david.holmes at oracle.com> wrote:
>>
>> Alan,
>>
>> On 18/01/2018 6:52 AM, Alan Snyder wrote:
>>> To summarize, these are the test failures/errors:
>>> 	• StringPlatformChars (error — native code not found)
>>
>> This seems potentially a makefile issue.
>>
>>> 	• NewUnsafeString (did not use provided string)
>>> 	• APIExtraction (class file for TestClass not found)
>>> 	• ClassDependenciesTest (assertion error — null pointer in loadClass)
>>> 	• IgnoreSymbolFile (package sun.reflect.annotation is not visible)
>>
>> Any other test failures should be taken up with the component area related to the test - and you can also search the bug systems for references to such failures. Not all tests are guaranteed to always pass in every environment - though the intent for tier1/2 tests that (unless excluded via the ProblemList.txt file, or marked "intermittent") they do pass.
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>> David
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