jmod and modular MR jars

[Alan Bateman]

On 13/10/2017 18:45, Ryan Schmitt wrote:
> I noticed that `jmod create` seems to work fine when module-info.class is
> located in the root of the jar supplied on the classpath, but when it is
> located at META-INF/versions/9/module-info.class I get a stack trace
> instead:
>
> Error: module-info.class not found
> java.io.IOException: module-info.class not found
> at jdk.jlink/jdk.tools.jmod.JmodTask$JmodFileWriter.
> writeModuleInfo(JmodTask.java:538)
> at jdk.jlink/jdk.tools.jmod.JmodTask$JmodFileWriter.write(JmodTask.java:476)
> at jdk.jlink/jdk.tools.jmod.JmodTask.create(JmodTask.java:433)
> at jdk.jlink/jdk.tools.jmod.JmodTask.run(JmodTask.java:208)
> at jdk.jlink/jdk.tools.jmod.Main.main(Main.java:34)
>
> Is this a bug?
JMOD != JAR file. Also JMOD is not an execution format. Maybe you meant 
to create a MR JAR with the `jar` tool?

-Alan