CODETOOLS-7902083: Simplify building jtreg

Mani Sarkar sadhak001 at gmail.com
Sat Dec 16 02:32:02 UTC 2017


Great, thanks! Will incorporate it with our build scripts on the adopt
openjdk build farm.

On Fri, 15 Dec 2017 22:34 Jonathan Gibbons, <jonathan.gibbons at oracle.com>
wrote:

> I've pushed the changeset containing this new script.
>
> There are two changes since I posted the webrev:
>
> 1. Change to use "shasum -a 1" instead of "sha1sum"
> 2. Update script to download and use jcommander.jar in conjunction with
> TestNG.
>
> With the second change in particular, all the jtreg self-tests pass,
> when the image is built with the build-all.sh script.
>
> -- Jon
>
> On 12/13/2017 04:32 PM, Jonathan Gibbons wrote:
> > This is for folk who are interested in building jtreg from source.
> >
> > As some of you have (rightfully) commented over the past years, jtreg
> > has not been an easy tool to build from source.
> >
> > And, as some of you may have noticed, there has been some amount of
> > activity over the past weeks and months to address this issue. This
> > work has been led by Erik Helin (thanks, Erik!) and we're now getting
> > to the point where we can show what we have been working towards.
> >
> > The core of the work to build jtreg is still the Makefiles as before,
> > although as was recently noted, we've been simplifying the
> > specification of the dependencies.
> >
> > Separately, Erik has helped provide updates to the way that some of
> > the Code Tools dependencies can be built.
> >
> > Building on all that work, we can now get to the next stage, to
> > provide a script that will download binaries for some components
> > (JUnit, TestNG) and will download and build source for other
> > components (AsmTools, JCov, JTHarness), for which there are no
> > official binaries.
> >
> > To run the script, you just need to have Ant and a suitable "java" on
> > your path, and to specify the location of an install of JDK 1.8 as an
> > argument to the script. wget is used to download files, which honors
> > proxy settings for those that need to use them. The script is
> > deliberately fairly simple, and suitable for use in a CI system.
> >
> > You can see a webrev for the script at
> > http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~jjg/7902083/webrev.00/
> >
> > Example of use:
> >
> > $ which ant
> > /opt/ant/1.9.4/bin/ant
> > $ which java
> > /opt/jdk/1.8.0/bin/java
> > $ sh make/build-all.sh /opt/jdk/1.8.0
> > ... build output ...
> > $ ls build/images/jtreg
> > bin  COPYRIGHT  doc  legal  lib  LICENSE  README  release
> > $
> >
> >
> > Once this settles down a bit, I'll update the public docs on the jtreg
> > web pages.
> >
> > -- Jon
> >
> >
>
> --

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