Help with build changes for: 8214796: Create a jlink plugin for stripping debug info symbols from native libraries

[Severin Gehwolf]

On Fri, 2019-01-25 at 17:55 +0100, Magnus Ihse Bursie wrote:
> 
> 
> On 2019-01-25 16:27, Severin Gehwolf wrote:
> > Hi,
> > 
> > I'm working on an enhancement for jlink. In particular a platform
> > specific plugin. I.e. It would only get built on unix/linux
> > platforms.
> > My trouble is getting some resouce properties set up properly. In
> > my
> > example there is two versions of plugins.properties: one in
> > shared/classes one in unix/classes. These, need to get merged into
> > one
> > via the MergeProperties build tool class. So far so good. But for
> > the
> > cases where there is only one resource property it should just get
> > copied to support/gensrc and that source root be used for compiling
> > those properties into actual ListResourceBundle Java classes.
> > 
> > The copying from the src tree to the gensrc tree doesn't seem to
> > work.
> > I've tried using $(CP) and SetupCopyFiles to no avail. Would
> > anybody
> > willing to help?
>  SetupCopyFile should work, but in this case I think it's simplest to
> just use install-file. Like this perhaps:
> 
> ifneq ($$($1_NUM_INPUT_FILES), 1)
>   $$($1_TARGET): $$($1_INPUT_FILES)
>       $$(call LogInfo, Merging $$($1_NUM_INPUT_FILES) properties
> files into a single properties file for jdk.jlink)
>       $(TOOL_MERGE_PROPERTIES) \
>               $(GENERATED_JLINK_RESOURCES_DIR)/$$($1_PROP).properties
> \
>               $$($1_INPUT_FILES)
> else
>   $$($1_TARGET): $$($1_INPUT_FILES)
>     $$(install-file)
> endif
> 
> $1 += $$($1_TARGET)
> 
> /Magnus

Thanks, Magnus!

Cheers,
Severin