CODETOOLS-7902083: Simplify building jtreg

[Jonathan Gibbons]

Sounds good;  I expect to promote (and tag) a new version tomorrow, 
getting ready for JDK 11.

-- Jon


On 12/19/17 3:33 PM, Mani Sarkar wrote:
> Hi Jon,
>
> Amended the scripts to use the latest build-all.sh from the tip, and 
> got this - https://ci.adoptopenjdk.net/view/Dependencies/job/jtreg/.
>
> Still using our old script to build from the last tag.
>
> Both the artifacts do contain asmtools.jar - let me know if it passes 
> your sanity check.
>
> Thanks again.
>
> Cheers,
> Mani
>
> On Mon, 18 Dec 2017 at 10:18 Maurizio Cimadamore 
> <maurizio.cimadamore at oracle.com 
> <mailto:maurizio.cimadamore at oracle.com>> wrote:
>
>
>
>     On 18/12/17 01:32, Jonathan Gibbons wrote:
>     > Maurizio,
>     >
>     > If you can do this in a way that makes it optional, that would be
>     > great.   Having put effort into pruning the set of dependencies,
>     I've
>     > no desire to see the set creep up again unnecessarily, although I
>     > admit the usefulness of the plugin.
>     Message understood :-)
>
>     Btw, I'm bringing this up because, currently, the only way to
>     build the
>     plugin is through the IDE itself, which, while not unreasonable (after
>     all you have to have an IDE if you want to use the plugin :-)), it
>     require some configuration and I've seen people getting stuck quite
>     frequently - a build command would probably mitigate some of those
>     concerns.
>
>     Maurizio
>     >
>     > -- Jon
>     >
>     >
>     > On 12/17/17 1:04 PM, Maurizio Cimadamore 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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