[8u] RFR: JDK-8253550: JDK-8252395 breaks the build for make STRIP_POLICY=no_strip

[Andrew Hughes]

On 09:50 Thu 24 Sep     , Severin Gehwolf wrote:
> On Wed, 2020-09-23 at 18:32 +0100, Andrew Hughes wrote:
> > Bug: https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-8253550
> > Webrev: https://cr.openjdk.java.net/~andrew/openjdk8/8253550/webrev.01/
> > 
> > JDK-8252395 broke the legacy way of disabling the stripping of
> > debuginfo from builds with:
> > 
> > $ make STRIP_POLICY=no_strip
> 
> Please update your build scripts to not use this any more. JDK-8207852
> is in 8u since July 2018. For non-stripped debug symbols, configure
> option --with-native-debug-symbols=internal should be used instead. The
> same works as well for later JDKs.
> 

No. I'm well aware of the new option. I retain the legacy build for 8u
so as to catch breakage like this.

It is clearly a regression if something that has worked for years is
broken by a new patch. I don't think that's acceptable on a stable
JDK.

Thanks,
-- 
Andrew :)

Senior Free Java Software Engineer
OpenJDK Package Owner
Red Hat, Inc. (http://www.redhat.com)

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