[8u-dev] RFA for JDK-8079788: Fix broken CL version detection in configure for some Visual Studio configurations

[Erik Joelsson]

Looks good (except for my spelling error in the comment "siutations". 
Not sure what the policy is for fixing such in backports.)

/Erik

On 2018-05-29 05:27, Alexey Ivanov wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Could you please approve the following backport to 8u-dev?
>
> JBS: https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-8079788
> jdk9 changeset: http://hg.openjdk.java.net/jdk9/dev/rev/d57780478145
> Code review: 
> http://mail.openjdk.java.net/pipermail/build-dev/2016-August/017566.html
>
> The patch applies cleanly to jdk8u-dev; generated-configure.sh is 
> regenerated.
> Webrev: http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~aivanov/8079788/jdk8/webrev.0/
>
> I recently faced this issue, and configure for 8u cannot complete. It 
> could be related to backporting of JDK-8042707.
>
> Thank you in advance.
>
> Regards,
> Alexey