RFR: JDK-8210931 JLI and launchers normalization and cleanup

[Magnus Ihse Bursie]

On 2018-09-20 13:24, Alan Bateman wrote:
> On 20/09/2018 09:32, Magnus Ihse Bursie wrote:
>> There's a lot of weird stuff going on with libjli and the launchers. 
>> Most of it stems from the old build system, which was just copied 
>> verbatim into the new build system. This is the final part of getting 
>> JLI to behave like most other libraries.
>>
>> This patch will:
>> * store libjli in the standard lib directory, not in a "jli" 
>> subdirectory.
>> * remove dead code for filtering ergo files, which do no longer exist
>> * use file extension to show type (ObjectiveC), rather than -x 
>> objective-c.
>> * use more common  constructs in setting up the native compilation 
>> arguments.
>> * clean out unused flags and arguments.
>>
>> Bug: https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-8210931
>> WebRev: 
>> http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~ihse/JDK-8210931-jli-normalization/webrev.01
> This looks okay to me but I think would be useful to confirm that 
> you've run the tools/launcher and java.lang.instrument tests. 
I'm pretty sure I've run at least the instrument tests, but I'll rerun 
it just to make sure. Does :jdk_instrument and :jdk_launcher sound 
reasonable?

> At some point I hope we can get the JPLIS agent in libinstrument 
> changed to not have the dependency on JLI but that will require work.
What is the current dependency due to? (Just curious)

/Magnus
>
> -Alan