RFR: JDK-8146299 - Disable rmic -Xnew

[Mark Sheppard]

oki doki ... np ... amendments have been made  ... verification testing 
in progress

regards
Mark

On 15/02/2017 18:57, Stuart Marks wrote:
>
>
> On 2/15/17 9:18 AM, Mandy Chung wrote:
>>> On Feb 15, 2017, at 6:21 AM, Mark Sheppard 
>>> <mark.sheppard at oracle.com> wrote:
>>>  please oblige and review the following change:
>>> http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~msheppar/8146299-II/webrev.03/
>>
>> For the test, can you move @ignore to the top after @test which makes 
>> it easier to tell this test is ignored.
>
> Hi Mandy,
>
> When Mark sent this for a preliminary review internally I had asked 
> him to move the @ignore tag after the @library tag. I was prompted to 
> do this because, when jtreg is run without the -ignore:quiet tag, the 
> result is
>
> TEST RESULT: Error. Parse Exception: `@library' must appear before 
> first action tag
>
> and oddly enough, @ignore is an action tag. But it seems like all of 
> our test runs specify -ignore:quiet, which accepts @ignore pretty much 
> anywhere, and other tests that use @ignore pretty much place it 
> anywhere. So it's pretty much useless to run jtreg with anything other 
> than -ignore:quiet.
>
> Mark, I'd suggest following Mandy's advice to put @ignore right after 
> @test, and to disregard what I had told you previously. Sorry for the 
> confusion.
>
> s'marks