Another question, if I may?

[David Holmes]

On 24/12/2017 9:01 PM, Ted Neward wrote:
> So if I do a "make hotspot" it replaces the compiled Hotspot binary in the exploded build image?

I believe so, but simplest thing is to do a find for libjvm.so before 
and after the "make hotspot" and see which one(s) changed.

David

> The reason I ask is that this is what I tried, and it didn’t appear to show up in the list of "PrintFlagsFinal" output.
> 
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> On 12/22/17, 12:32 AM, "Erik Joelsson" <erik.joelsson at oracle.com> wrote:
> 
>      
>      
>      On 2017-12-22 01:06, David Holmes wrote:
>      >
>      > "make hotspot" won't update the image, you need to "make images" for
>      > that.
>      >
>      > Assuming you're building 9+ then when you change libjvm.so the module
>      > needs to be rebuilt etc.
>      >
>      > Or you can work from the exploded build the contents of e.g.
>      >
>      >  build/linux-x64-debug/jdk/
>      >
>      > though you still need a full build to prime that. But after that "make
>      > hotspot" should suffice. (Erik correct me if I'm wrong here please.)
>      This is correct. Using the exploded image as described is the shortcut
>      we have. The actual images are always built using jmod/jlink and yes,
>      that requires quite a bit of extra build time.
>      
>      If you are in JDK 8, you need to run "make jdk" to get the exploded
>      image updated with the new libjvm.so.
>      
>      /Erik
>      
> 
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