CODETOOLS-7902083: Simplify building jtreg

[Jonathan Gibbons]

Mani,

I know of no issues with respect to asmtools.  When I build jtreg with 
this script, all the self-tests pass.  If you encounter issues with 
asmtools, please let me know.

-- Jon


On 12/17/17 1:46 PM, Mani Sarkar wrote:
>
> Hi Jon,
>
> I remember that the versions before this release also included 
> asmtools during the build process, but we found lately that the final 
> artifact did not actually contain the asmtools commands inside the 
> final jtreg artifact.
>
> Has this been resolved in the current version, I will soon be building 
> it, and would like to be able to use jtreg features that make use of  
> asmtools.
>
> Thanks.
>
> Cheers,
> Mani
>
>
> On Sun, 17 Dec 2017 21:04 Maurizio Cimadamore, 
> <maurizio.cimadamore at oracle.com 
> <mailto:maurizio.cimadamore at oracle.com>> wrote:
>
>     Looks great - thanks for doing this.
>
>     If there's interest, I could also put some effort in order to
>     integrate
>     the plugins build into the system. In principle, it should be
>     doable, by
>     adding a bunch of env variables (to point at the IDEA runtime jar). Of
>     course that would be an optional part of the build.
>
>     Cheers
>     Maurizio
>
>
>     On 14/12/17 00:32, 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/
>     <http://cr.openjdk.java.net/%7Ejjg/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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