RFR: JDK-8199197: Set _NT_SYMBOL_PATH when running tests on windows

Magnus Ihse Bursie magnus.ihse.bursie at oracle.com
Wed Mar 7 18:19:03 UTC 2018


On 2018-03-07 18:06, Erik Joelsson wrote:
> When running tests on Windows in a distributed environment we 
> currently don't have access to debug symbols, which causes stack 
> traces in hs_err files to be useless. When running local tests this 
> works because the product under test was built on the same machine and 
> the debug symbols are still available there. For this to work in 
> distributed testing, we need to both provide the symbols bundle as 
> well as setting up the _NT_SYMBOL_PATH environment variable to point 
> to the correct directories. This patch does just that for both the old 
> and new test makefiles. I have verified by running a modified jtreg 
> test in Mach5 that crashes hotspot and verified that the stack trace 
> contains symbols.
>
> Bug: https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-8199197
>
> Webrev: http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~erikj/8199197/webrev.01/
Looks good to me.

Just one question: is the test profile already setup to depend on the 
symbols image? Otherwise I don't really understand how that can be 
assumed to be present?

/Magnus

>
> /Erik
>




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