8023351: Add TEST.groups in preparation to simplify rules in jdk/test/Makefile

[Alan Bateman]

On 21/08/2013 01:04, Mike Duigou wrote:
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> The root repo test targets currently trigger off the repo name in order to know which<repo>/test/Makefile to run. ie. jdk_util triggers running the jdk/test/Makefile. Would it be possible to retain the repo prefix for the meta group names? ie. jdk_core jdk_svc and jdk_desktop?
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> The other possibility is to move the TEST.ROOT and TEST.groups files for all tests to the root repo. This would have the advantage that we could define groups like "smoketest" that would span repos.
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It makes sense to use jdk_ for the meta groups so I'll rename those 3 
before pushing this.

I see your where you are going on a top-level root but I think that has 
several implications that would need to be considered. It's almost like 
you need to link the test directories in each of the repositories.

-Alan