src.zip is not being updated when running make images

[Erik Joelsson]

This has been observed recently and logged here 
https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-8211016.

The workaround is to manually remove support/src.zip before rebuild.

/Erik


On 2018-09-25 11:50, Jorn Vernee wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I'm running into a problem where running `make images` does not update 
> the `images/jdk/lib/src.zip` file. I have tried deleting the file and 
> then running the command, which creates the src.zip, but it still has 
> the old source files in it.
>
> I'm debugging using my IDE (Netbeans), but with the old source files 
> the line numbers are incorrect, and it shows me the wrong part of the 
> file.
>
> I can get the right src.zip to generate by first running `make clean`, 
> and then running `make images`, but doing a full rebuild takes a long 
> time for me (sometimes upwards of an hour), so I was wondering if 
> there is a way to trigger the re-generation of src.zip without doing a 
> full rebuild? I couldn't find anything about it in the building docs, 
> besides gensrc, which seems to be for generating source files?
>
> Thanks,
> Jorn