RFR: 8284661: Reproducible assembly builds without relative linking

[Andrew Leonard]

On Mon, 11 Apr 2022 16:58:38 GMT, Erik Joelsson <erikj at openjdk.org> wrote:

> > thanks @erikj79 Not familiar with AbsPathsInImage, could you give some background please? wondering why it's not found these paths before, maybe it's not running on debugimages? What tier does it get run in?
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> I wrote this test when introducing the --disable-absolute-paths-in-output functionality, so we could verify that no absolute paths made it into any part of the output that we eventually ship to customers. I excluded all kinds of debuginfo files because I didn't know if they could be made free of absolute paths, and it was out of scope for what I was doing at the time.
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> I believe we run this test as part of our tier2 internally at Oracle. I think generally it's an optional test as it relies on a specific build configuration that all builders of OpenJDK may not want to use.

Thanks for the background, we also run it as an "extended" test at Adoptium i've discovered.

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PR: https://git.openjdk.java.net/jdk/pull/8177