RFR(S/T) : 8219158 : use 'test.root' property instead of traversing test-src path

[David Holmes]

Hi Igor,

On 20/02/2019 4:24 pm, Igor Ignatyev wrote:
> Hi David,
> 
> you are right, I've filed 8219417 to do that in all test suites and sent RFR to jdk-dev alias.

I responded to that RFR and I don't think it's the right approach. This 
bug should simply update the requiresVersion for the hotspot tests.

Thanks,
David

> -- Igor
> 
>> On Feb 19, 2019, at 10:07 PM, David Holmes <david.holmes at oracle.com> wrote:
>>
>> Hi Igor,
>>
>> On 20/02/2019 3:54 pm, Igor Ignatyev wrote:
>>> http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~iignatyev//8219158/webrev.00/index.html
>>>> 73 lines changed: 9 ins; 32 del; 32 mod;
>>> Hi all,
>>> could you please review this trivial clean-up? jtreg4.2-b14 added a new property 'test.root', this patches replaces all code in hotspot testbase which determines the root directory w/ simple reading of this property.
>>
>> You will have to update the jtreg requiresVersion to b14 to use this, else it will fail for anyone not using b14.
>>
>> Thanks,
>> David
>> ----
>>
>>> JBS: https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-8219158
>>> webrev: http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~iignatyev//8219158/webrev.00/index.html
>>> testing: vmTestbase/gc/g1/unloading, vmTestbase/nsk/monitoring/stress, vmTestbase/vm/mlvm/, vmTestbase/vm/runtime/defmeth
>>> Thanks,
>>> -- Igor
>