RFC: fix path to test jre in tapset test

[Mark Wielaard]

On Thu, Jun 28, 2012 at 11:39:11AM -0400, Omair Majid wrote:
> On 06/27/2012 07:25 PM, Andrew Hughes wrote:
> > ----- Original Message -----
> >> On Tue, 2012-06-26 at 17:46 -0400, Omair Majid wrote:
> >>> There is a minor typo in the tapset test script. It assumes ix86 
> >>> systems have a jre arch directory of "i586", which contradicts
> >>> what acinclude.m4 says:
> 
> > You missed 8, Omair :-)
> 
> Thanks, I had forgotten about that. But it turns out that the
> test/tapset directory doesnt exist in 8 :( Were the tapset tests ever
> added to 8?

I assumed 8 branched from 7 after the tapset tests were added,
but it seems I am mistaken and 8 was created (long) before that.
 
> Mark, what are the plans for the tapset tests? I see that you have
> proposed the dtrace macro changes for inclusion in jdk8. Do you intend
> to propose upstream to include the tapsets too? What about the tapset
> tests? If these aren't going upstream, then we probably want to add them
> to icedtea8.

I hadn't really thought about it and I don't know if Jon wants to push
them. But given that even a small patch to tweak some defines in an
existing hotspot file takes months I am afraid to think how long new
infrastructure patch might take (the tapset testsuite relies on perl).

After my vacation (next week) I'll ping the macro patches again and
see if we can get some movement on those.

Cheers,

Mark