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

[Vladimir Kozlov]

Looks good.

Thanks,
Vladimir

On 10/6/17 1:28 PM, Igor Ignatyev wrote:
> 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
>>
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