RFR: 8015145: Smartjavac needs more flexibility with linking to sources

[Erik Joelsson]

Trying again. I would like to get a formal review on this if possible.

/Erik

On 2013-06-13 09:41, Erik Joelsson wrote:
> Would be great if someone could take a look at this, thanks.
>
> /Erik
>
> On 2013-06-07 14:43, Erik Joelsson wrote:
>> Here is a patch solving a problem with -sourcepath for sjavac.
>>
>> First some background. The security sources (the ones that require 
>> signing) need to be built to a separate directory. If they aren't (as 
>> is the case now) security tests will fail if run on the exploded jdk 
>> image (the one you get when just typing make or make jdk). In 
>> JDK-8009280, I'm trying to fix this. The solution I have for that bug 
>> is working well, except when running with sjavac, and basically 
>> builds all classes except the security classes first to the normal 
>> outputdir and then as a separate step builds just the security 
>> classes to a different outputdir.
>>
>> There are two issues that need to be addressed in sjavac for this to 
>> work. First, it needs to be possible to supply the same source root 
>> both to the -src and -sourcepath option (but with different filter 
>> rules). Sjavac is very picky and only links to sources that are 
>> included in either of those options, and since we are excluding the 
>> security sources from -src, we need to add them to -sourcepath.
>>
>> The second thing is more of a bug as far as I can tell. Sjavac 
>> compares the found set of sources to compile with what the makefile 
>> think needs to be compiled, as a safety check. Currently, sjavac is 
>> including sources that are just being linked to in this comparison. I 
>> would think that it should only include sources that are meant to be 
>> compiled.
>>
>> http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~erikj/8015145/webrev.langtools.01/
>>
>> http://bugs.sun.com/view_bug.do?bug_id=8015145
>>
>> /Erik