RFR: 8348028: Unable to run gtests with CDS enabled

[Calvin Cheung]

On Thu, 27 Feb 2025 12:42:35 GMT, David Holmes <dholmes at openjdk.org> wrote:

>>> Also,
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>>> > That presumes you are dealing with a single variant JDK, not one that has both client and server.
>>> 
>>> Is this even relevant anymore? Afaik, the last platform to have both client and server where 32-bit Windows, which is now removed.
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>> Don't we still have support for combining every kind of VM (Except Zero) into the resulting JDK or am I mixing it up with something else?
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>> Afaik, the last platform to have both client and server where 32-bit Windows, which is now removed.
> 
> It is still allowed. Whether anyone actually needs it, or uses it is a different matter. The point is you have to match the gtest variant with the jdk variant.
> 
> EDIT: actually is it still allowed? Does the build system require only a single JVM variant be configured? If not how do the different variants actually get built?

@dholmes-ora, @iklam, @magicus Thanks for the reviews!

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PR Comment: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/pull/23758#issuecomment-2691149815