RFR: 8177845: Need a mechanism to load Graal

[Doug Simon]

> On 27 Apr 2017, at 17:40, Alan Bateman <Alan.Bateman at oracle.com> wrote:
> 
> On 27/04/2017 15:47, Doug Simon wrote:
> 
>> :
>> 
>> - The jaotc launcher now needs to explicitly export JVMCI and jdk.internal.vm.compiler to jdk.aot[4].
>>   Unfortunately there needs to be one --add-exports option per qualified export target as combining
>>   them with a comma (e.g., --add-exports=jdk.internal.vm.ci/jdk.vm.ci.code=jdk.internal.vm.compiler,jdk.aot)
>>   breaks the make process:
>> 
>>     Launcher-jdk.aot.gmk:31: *** missing separator.  Stop.
>>     make/Main.gmk:232: recipe for target 'jdk.aot-launchers' failed.
>> 
> `--add-exports` is accumulative so what you have is okay.

Yes, it seems to work so I'm going to leave it as is.

> Alternatively the build has CommaList to convert space separated lists into comma separated lists so I would expect this should work:
> 
> --add-exports=jdk.internal.vm.ci/jdk.vm.ci.amd64=$(call CommaList, jdk.internal.vm.compiler  jdk.aot)

Thanks. Good to know in the future.

-Doug