[8u-dev] Request for Approval for CR

[Kevin Walls]

Thanks Rob!


On 18/03/2018 16:48, Rob McKenna wrote:
> Approved
>
>      -Rob
>
> On 17/03/18 21:17, Kevin Walls wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> I'd like to request approval to push a backport of:
>>
>> JBS: https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-8027584
>>
>> 9 changeset: http://hg.openjdk.java.net/jdk9/dev/rev/a757bcc8bbe4
>>
>> 8u webrev: http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~kevinw/8027584/webrev.00/
>>
>> It's actually a clean backport/import, except the change of
>> DATE_WHEN_GENERATED which is a date, which I set to the current time when I
>> built this change recently.
>>
>> This bug hits people building on Windows on certain versions of cygwin, and
>> builds fail with a really quite obscure file not found error which appears
>> to make no sense, then you find JDK-8027584.  Yes you can "bash configure
>> --disable-ccache" and carry but I don't think everybody should need to know
>> that every time.  8-) The change lets me build OK on my laptop where I
>> previously hit that problem, and in JPRT runs on all the jdk 8 platforms.
>>
>> Many thanks
>> Kevin
>>
>>