RFR: 8317340: Windows builds are not reproducible if MS VS compiler install path differs

[Andrew Leonard]

On Mon, 2 Oct 2023 14:13:23 GMT, Erik Joelsson <erikj at openjdk.org> wrote:

> > > What effect will this have on debugging?
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> > Hi @erikj79 So this is the same as we pathmap the openjdk workspace source just above, in that we only do it when ALLOW_ABSOLUTE_PATHS_IN_OUTPUT is "false", which is for release builds. For "debug" builds it is "true" and no pathmap'ing occurs, see:
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> Yes, I'm aware of that. I was just curious if you had tested and investigated the consequences of doing this when trying to debug a "release" build. I'm not against this change, but it would be good to understand any consequences.

Ah I see :-) So for debugging a release it would mean potentially any VS

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PR Comment: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/pull/16008#issuecomment-1743110812