RFR: JDK-8241421 Cleanup handling of jtreg

Erik Joelsson erik.joelsson at oracle.com
Mon Mar 30 12:57:13 UTC 2020


On 2020-03-27 16:37, Jonathan Gibbons wrote:
>
> My reading of the jtreg code is that JT_HOME is only used in the 
> startup script, and it does not require it to be set; it will figure 
> it out if needed. It is not required within the Java source code.
>
> I'm thinking to change the script to use JTREG_HOME, JTREG_JAVA 
> (instead of JT_HOME, JT_JAVA), and that I will default these new names 
> to the values of the old names, as a backwards compatibility measure.  
> I also notice some inconsistent variations on the name in comments 
> that I will also fix.
>
> Does this seem a reasonable approach?
>
It does indeed.

/Erik





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