[8u] RFR (XS) 8218613: [TESTBUG] runtime/ErrorHandling tests are building incorrect testlibrary classes

Andrew Haley aph at redhat.com
Fri Feb 8 13:52:14 UTC 2019


On 2/7/19 5:28 PM, Martin Buchholz wrote:
> On Thu, Feb 7, 2019 at 4:33 AM David Holmes <david.holmes at oracle.com> wrote:
> 
>> On 7/02/2019 9:52 pm, Aleksey Shipilev wrote:
>>> Bug:
>>>    https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-8218613
>>>
>>> This is botched backport to 8u, which fails the jtreg tests now in 8u.
>> Note the fix is not the
>>> backport, but the actual 8u-specific fix.
>>
>> IIRC the incorrect @build is not a fatal error for earlier jtreg
>> version. AFAICS we still use jtreg 4.1 for testing 8u internally.
>>
> 
> This surprised me.  Of course, the incentive to update to new jtreg
> versions is generally because jdk-latest needs it, but we've always
> successfully adopted any newer jtreg to test older jdks as well.
> (but we don't run as many tests as you do)

I want to use the current jtreg for everything if at all possible.

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