RFR: JDK-8238225: Issues reported after replacing symlink at Contents/MacOS/libjli.dylib with binary
Erik Joelsson
erik.joelsson at oracle.com
Fri Jan 31 15:31:35 UTC 2020
In JDK-8235687 the MacOS bundle distribution of the JDK was changed to
conform to Apple requirements by changing Contents/MacOS/libjli.dylib
from a symlink into ../Home/lib/libjli.dylib to a copy of that file. The
problem with having a symlink there is that Contents/MacOS/libjli.dylib
is the declared CFBundleExecutable of the bundle and that executable may
not be a symlink. The history around why that particular library was put
there seems lost in ancient history. All we know is that it was there
when Apple donated the Mac port and according to this bug report, there
are users out there relying on it.
When changing Contents/MacOS/libjli.dylib to a copy, loading that dylib
and using it to launch a JVM no longer works. This patch fixes that by
making libjli.dylib aware of potentially being located there and if so,
finding the JDK home dir in ../Home.
I've also expanded the existing test for launching a JVM through
libjli.dylib directly to also test this location when possible. In local
testing, this will not be covered unless the user explicitly specifies
that the JDK under test should be the bundle image on the command line
like this:
$ make test-only TEST=open/test/jdk/tools/launcher/JliLaunchTest.java
JDK_IMAGE_DIR=$PWD/build/macosx-x64/images/jdk-bundle/jdk-15.jdk/Contents/Home
But, at least in Oracle's distributed testing, the JDK on MacOS is
distributed in the bundle layout, so there this functionality will be
tested.
Bug: https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-8238225
Webrev: http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~erikj/8238225/webrev.01/
/Erik
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