RFR (XS) 8188828 Intermittent ClassNotFoundException: jdk.test.lib.Platform for compiler tests

[Igor Ignatyev]

Hi Ioi,

I'm really happy we found such a simple workaround for this annoying problem and hope it'll greatly reduce CNFE in our test runs.  

the fix looks good to me.

Thanks,
-- Igor

> On Oct 6, 2017, at 1:19 PM, Ioi Lam <ioi.lam at oracle.com> wrote:
> 
> Please review this very simple change:
> 
> https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-8188828
> http://ioilinux.us.oracle.com/webrev/jdk10/8188828_compiler_test_class_not_found.v01/
> 
> The dependency of
> 
>     FileInstaller -> Utils -> JDKToolLauncher -> Platform
> 
> has caused many intermittent ClassNotFoundException in the hotspot nightly runs.
> While this fix does not address the root cause (proper dependencies are not
> specified in the test cases -- which we are planning to fix), we will hopefully
> see much fewer occurrences of this annoying failure scenario.
> 
> Thanks a lot to Igor for suggesting the simple fix!
> 
> - Ioi
>