[jdk11u-dev] RFR: 8299616: [11u] Bootcycle build fails after JDK-8257679 backport [v2]

[Andrew John Hughes]

On Wed, 4 Jan 2023 17:54:01 GMT, Aleksey Shipilev <shade at openjdk.org> wrote:

> > The safest option is to restore what we had before, as your patch does, but it may be that `JAVA_EXEC_POS` can now always be 1 (or just removed and a hardcoded 1 used in `bootcycle-spec.gmk.in`).
> 
> True. But, I could not convince myself there is a guarantee for `fixpath` to be absent in either `$SJAVAC_SERVER_JAVA` or `$JAVA`, so kept the most pessimistic fix.
> 
> I did massage the comments a bit, so that they would match the original code shape.

Yes, that was my thinking too. Better safe than sorry.

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PR: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk11u-dev/pull/1639