RFR: 8347831: Re-examine version check when cross linking [v2]

[Henry Jen]

On Fri, 7 Nov 2025 10:57:54 GMT, Alan Bateman <alanb at openjdk.org> wrote:

>> Henry Jen has updated the pull request incrementally with one additional commit since the last revision:
>> 
>>   Use release.txt from java.base module in current and target for comparison
>
> src/jdk.jlink/share/classes/jdk/tools/jlink/internal/JlinkTask.java line 600:
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>> 598:             ModuleReference target = finder.find("java.base").get();
>> 599:             String currentRelease = getReleaseInfo(current).orElseThrow(() ->
>> 600:                 new IllegalArgumentException("Cannot find release.txt"));
> 
> I assume this is an err.jlink.version.mismatch case too. The packaged version of java.base on the module path is missing the resource file so it must be an older version, hence a mismatch.

This is for the current runtime of jlink, so this should never happen?

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PR Review Comment: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/pull/28155#discussion_r2504531025