jdk10 on macOS

[Jonathan Gibbons]

On 01/18/2018 05:51 PM, David Holmes wrote:
> 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.

Regrettably true, but that's not the problem in this case.    The test 
is a jshell test that is analysing doc-comments, but without using the 
javadoc tool.

The heap needs to be increased. I've encountered the problem myself and 
already raised the issue with the JShell folk.

-- Jon

>
> 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.
>>>
>>> David
>>