RFR: 8277647: [REDO] JDK-8277507 Add jlink.debug system property while launching jpackage tests to help diagonize recent intermittent failures

[Jaikiran Pai]

Hello Andy,

On 24/11/21 7:23 pm, Andy Herrick wrote:
> never mind my previous  email, addArgument("--java-option ...") , 
> would be for argument to the java launching the app.
>
> you are right to use -J-Djlink.debug=true .  It must be interpreted in 
> the standard launcher used for jpackage, because the -J-D arg never 
> gets to the jpackage java code and the System Property "jlink.debug" 
> is already set to true by then.
>
Thank you for the clarification and verifying the value. I did a similar 
(manual) check and like you say, the system property does rightly make 
it to the JLinkTask.

-Jaikiran