Need reviewer - Change to jdk/test/makefile for shared library execute permissions

Alan Bateman Alan.Bateman at Sun.COM
Fri Apr 16 14:54:55 UTC 2010


Kelly O'Hair wrote:
> Need reviewer - Change to jdk/test/makefile for shared library execute 
> permissions
>
> We been having some spurious test failures on windows and finally 
> tracked it down to this
> issue. Fixing it in the jdk/test/Makefile seemed like the best place, 
> even though none of us
> really want shared libraries in the repositories, this seems to be the 
> best fix.
>
> This allows more tests to reliably run, although the shared libraries 
> do need to exist
> for the test to pass, so anyone removing these binary files should of 
> course not run
> the associated tests.
>
> 6943915: Adjust jdk/test/Makefile to deal with .dll and .so libraries 
> needing execute permissions
> http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~ohair/openjdk7/testMakefile-6943915/webrev/
>
> I'll be testing this on all platforms tonight.
>
> -kto
>
This looks a reasonable solution for now.

-Alan.



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