suggestion and offer: langtools in build

[Fredrik Öhrström]

Yes, this has bugged me too! The jars existed because of the incremental
conversion of the old build system. Now we no longer need the jars. We
can simply
do
   "bootclasspath/p:javac.jar -cp javac.jar com.sun.tools.javac.Main"
instead.

So I here are the few webrevs to do this. We can push all but
langtools into the build forest,
and when all has been promoted through master down to langtools, we
can push the
langtools repo into tl.

http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~ohrstrom/webrev-runjavac-root/
http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~ohrstrom/webrev-runjavac-langtools/
http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~ohrstrom/webrev-runjavac-corba/
http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~ohrstrom/webrev-runjavac-jaxp/
http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~ohrstrom/webrev-runjavac-jaxws/
http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~ohrstrom/webrev-runjavac-jdk/

Anyone know why JAVAC_JARS (new name RUN_JAVAC) are ?= assigned?
are we overriding them in some use cases?

//Fredrik

2013/1/24 Jonathan Gibbons <jonathan.gibbons at oracle.com>:
> OK, I'll add the code to langtools; you can utilize it in the build when you
> have time.
>
> -- Jon
>
>
> On 01/23/2013 05:48 PM, Kelly O'Hair wrote:
>>
>> Sounds like a swell idea to me.
>>
>> -kto
>>
>> On Jan 23, 2013, at 3:47 PM, Jonathan Gibbons wrote:
>>
>>> OK, I realize you guys are really busy right now, so you may want to save
>>> this for a bit later ...
>>>
>>> It bugs me that the new build creates lots of jar files for langtools,
>>> that only differ in the main program.
>>>
>>>   updating 1739 files
>>>   updating 1739 files
>>>   updating 1739 files
>>> Modifying langtools/dist/lib/classes.jar
>>>   updating 1749 files
>>>
>>> How about changing it so that we create a single jar file (classes.jar)
>>> that contains a "build-time only" main program which is a wrapper for all
>>> the necessary tools, such that the first arg identifies the tool.
>>>
>>> Thus the downstream use is simply to replace
>>>
>>>     BOOTJAVAHOME/bin/java -jar javac.jar args
>>>
>>> with
>>>
>>>     BOOTJAVAHOME/bin/java -jar classes.jar javac args
>>>
>>> If you (build-infra guys) are interested, I'll provide the main program
>>> to go in the langtools repo. This would be for the build only -- there is no
>>> suggestion to put it in any external product.
>>>
>>> -- Jon
>
>