RFR: 8356974: tools/launcher/ToolsOpts.java fails if the build id contains "-J"

Tobias Hartmann thartmann at openjdk.org
Fri May 16 10:35:09 UTC 2025


On Wed, 14 May 2025 14:40:41 GMT, Manuel Hässig <mhaessig at openjdk.org> wrote:

> When passing `-J-version` to the patched javac, `tools/launcher/ToolsOpts.java` wants to verify that the output corresponds to the expected version output. However, if the build id of the JDK running this test contains the substring "-J", then the test fails incorrectly at:
> 
> https://github.com/openjdk/jdk/blob/97b0dd2167530b3d237e748cd5da0130e38e8af2/test/jdk/tools/launcher/ToolsOpts.java#L131-L134
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> This PR addresses this false positive by looking for the substring `" -J-"` instead. The preceding space to ensure that `-J` occurs at the beginning of a word as an argument would and a `-` suffix since `-J` options are always followed by a dash. Further, this PR adds a print of the output of the test result in case this condition fails, to be able to inspect what triggered the failure.
> 
> Testing:
>  - [x] [Github Actions](https://github.com/mhaessig/jdk/actions/runs/15023438332)
>  - [x] tier1 and tier2 for Oracle supported platforms and OSs plus Oracle internal testing

Looks good to me but someone from core-libs should have a look as well.

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Marked as reviewed by thartmann (Reviewer).

PR Review: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/pull/25230#pullrequestreview-2846233046


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