RFR[XS] 8191374 Improve error message when CDS is not supported on exploded build

harold seigel harold.seigel at oracle.com
Thu Dec 14 22:41:36 UTC 2017


Hi Ioi,

Fix looks good.

Thanks, Harold


On 12/14/2017 5:30 PM, Ioi Lam wrote:
> Hi, please review this very simple fix for JDK 11:
>
> https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-8191374
> http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~iklam/jdk11/8191374-exploded-build-dump-error-msg.v01/ 
>
>
> Summary - the error message is changed to be more obvious what's going 
> on.
>
>
> Testing: since we don't have automated tests for exploded builds, I 
> just did some
> manually testing on Linux using the "exploded build", ./jdk/bin/java, 
> which is an
> intermediate file created by the JDK build system.
>
>
> Before:
>
>     $ ./jdk/bin/java -Xshare:dump
>     Error: non-empty directory '/jdk/bld/opencds/jdk/modules/java.base'
>     Hint: enable -Xlog:class+path=info to diagnose the failure
>     Error occurred during initialization of VM
>     CDS allows only empty directories in archived classpaths
>
>
> After:
>
>     $ ./jdk/bin/java -Xshare:dump
>     Error occurred during initialization of VM
>     CDS is not supported in exploded JDK build
>
>
> Thanks
> - Ioi



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