RFR: JDK-8216278: Fix devkit and basic Jib support on WSL

Erik Joelsson erik.joelsson at oracle.com
Tue Jan 15 17:09:49 UTC 2019


I agree, though, they aren't quite the same, they convert in different 
directions.

/Erik

On 2019-01-15 05:18, Magnus Ihse Bursie wrote:
> In the future, we should probably consider to make a support function 
> for those "convert a list of paths between windows and unix" blocks; I 
> think we have roughly the same code in say 5 or 6 locations now...
>
> /Magnus
>
> On 2019-01-09 19:14, Erik Joelsson wrote:
>> The WSL support in the build does not currently work with devkits. 
>> This prevents us from using Jib to configure a WSL build. This patch 
>> fixes configure to work with devkits when building for Windows in WSL.
>>
>> (For Oracle users, I also managed to get Jib working in WSL, and able 
>> to configure both Windows and Linux profiles. Note that since Jib is 
>> not WSL aware itself, you need to manually direct the data dir to a 
>> location visible from Windows. e.g --with-data-dir 
>> /mnt/c/cygwin64/var/tmp/jib-$USER).
>>
>> Bug: https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-8216278
>>
>> Webrev: http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~erikj/8216278/webrev.01/index.html
>>
>> /Erik
>>
>



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