On passing --date to jrt-fs jar at build time

[Alan Bateman]

On 28/03/2025 09:25, Galder Zamarreno wrote:
> :
>
> However, @Thomas Fitzsimmons <mailto:fitzsim at redhat.com> had a very 
> good point to make:
>
> > I also wonder why the test harness is passing |--date 
> $SOURCE_DATE_EPOCH|, since the test jars are not distributed, not sure 
> why they'd need to be reproducible...
>
> I think his question is valid. Why pass --date for a test jar?
>

I'm not sure what "test harness" and "test jar" means here but just to 
say that jrt-fs.jar is in the JDK run-time.  When an IDE running on JDK 
X needs to build/run a project for target JDK Y then it will use the jrt 
file system to access the classes in the target JDK. jrt-fs.jar is the 
provider implementation that JDK X will load to do this.

-Alan
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