RFR (XS): 8199768 jdk/test/lib/compiler/CompilerUtils.java needs to provide more control over compilation

[Alan Bateman]

On 19/03/2018 05:11, David Holmes wrote:
> Unsure exactly who should review this ...
>
> bug: https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-8199768
> webrev: http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~dholmes/8199768/webrev/
>
> CompilerUtils.compile compiles all source files in a given directory 
> tree into a specific directory. This is done by passing 
> Integer.MAX_VALUE as the 'depth' argument to Files.find.
>
> There are times when we** don't want to compile the entire tree into a 
> single directory so it would be useful to be able to specify whether 
> or not to recurse (depth = Integer.MAX_VALUE) or not (depth = 1).
>
> ** I need this for some tests I'm developing for Nestmates (JEP 181) 
> and it will be simpler to fix this separately in mainline.
Looks okay although an alternative is to just invoke the existing method 
with the specify source files that you want to compile (which I think 
what is what several tests do when they have only one or two source 
files to compile).

-Alan