RFR: 8252233: Enable debug-image target to support producing a pure debug image package

[Andrew Leonard]

Hi Severin,
So yes I guess maybe "debugsymbols-image" is more precise, we call it 
"debugimage" at Adopt, see artifacts: 
https://ci.adoptopenjdk.net/job/build-scripts/job/jobs/job/jdk15u/job/jdk15u-linux-x64-openj9/
that's less of a mouthful and I think we're used to that name, but if the 
community would prefer that?
Cheers
Andrew

Andrew Leonard
Java Runtimes Development
IBM Hursley
IBM United Kingdom Ltd
internet email: andrew_m_leonard at uk.ibm.com 




From:   Severin Gehwolf <sgehwolf at redhat.com>
To:     Andrew Leonard <andrew_m_leonard at uk.ibm.com>, 
build-dev at openjdk.java.net
Date:   27/08/2020 17:20
Subject:        [EXTERNAL] Re: RFR: 8252233: Enable debug-image target to 
support producing a pure debug image package



Hi Andrew,

On Thu, 2020-08-27 at 16:55 +0100, Andrew Leonard wrote:
> Hi,
> Please may I request a sponsor and review for this build enhancement to 
> provide a pure debug "image", for those developers that want to 
accompany 
> a straight jdk image with a debug-image when needed:
>     
https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-8252233 

>     webrev: 
http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~aleonard/8252233/webrev.00/ 


Not really a review...

If I understand this correctly it's an image of only *debugsymbols* for
native files, right? debug-image as a name seems a bit confusing to me.
There is already a concept of 'release', 'fastdebug' and 'slowdebug'
builds for HotSpot. Perhaps calling it debugsymbols-image would make
more sense?

Thanks,
Severin




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