java-rmi.exe/cgi

[Erik Joelsson]

Ah, thanks! The bug evaluation says that this shouldn't be built at all. 
For the sake of faster builds, not building unnecessary stuff is the 
best way of improving speed. I vote for delete.

/Erik

On 2011-11-10 16:21, Kelly O'Hair wrote:
> See http://bugs.sun.com/bugdatabase/view_bug.do?bug_id=6512052
>
> My gut feeling is that we fix it, and then add this file to an exclusion list when we get to the point of
> comparing built jdk images.
> But I'm willing to accept other suggestions.
>
> -kto
>
> On Nov 10, 2011, at 10:14 AM, Erik Joelsson wrote:
>
>> Sometimes when converting makefiles in the jdk repo, I stumble over things that don't look right. The code seem to suggest one intention, but careful inspection reveals a different behavior. Normally I try to copy the actual behavior and put a note in the new make file about it. Now I discovered something that's just too weird:
>>
>> In "jdk/make/sun/rmi/cgi/Makefile" the program "java-rmi.exe" is built. This looks like it's intended to be a windows native version of the "java-rmi.cgi" script that is available on linux and solaris. The makefile even copies java-rmi.exe to java-rmi.cgi. When creating the j2sdk/jre images, however, only the exe version is included. I verified this in the promoted builds of jdk 7 (b148 and a few others). The makefile also tries to declare that the program be compiled from "jdk/src/windows/bin/java-rmi.c" (by declaring FILES_c variable) but Program.gmk ignores this and just builds main.c (the standard java launcher) instead. So the "java-rmi.exe" in a windows distribution is just java.exe with a weird name.
>>
>> What is this script/program used for, is it used at all, and how should I convert the building of it? I have tried compiling java-rmi.c and it seems to be working at least. (Gives same default output as the script on linux)
>>
>> /Erik