Need help testing the EA builds

[Volker Simonis]

On Mon, Mar 7, 2016 at 8:58 PM, Alan Bateman <Alan.Bateman at oracle.com> wrote:
>
> On 07/03/2016 18:23, Volker Simonis wrote:
>>
>> :
>>
>> So while the tools are not being refactored, how can we fix the build
>> on non-SA platforms if moving the SA dependency to
>> module-info.java.extra is no viable solution? I've tried your
>> suggestion to add `-addmods ALL-SYSTEM` to the jcmd launchers. It
>> seems to work. I still don't see the jdk.hotspot.agent dependency
>> displayed by jdeps (is this expected ?), but the resulting tools (i.e.
>> jstack) now display all the options, also the ones whoch require the
>> SA.
>
> These tools access SA using core reflection so the jdeps doesn't see the
> dependency. Dropping the `requires jdk.htospot.agent and using `-addmods
> ALL-SYSTEM` as workaround will resolve it but I'd prefer to avoid this if we
> can.
>
> Erik suggested a build solution to this and may have a patch soon.
>

OK, that would be fine. This problem isn't very urgent but it would be
good if we could resolve it before the big jake integration into
jdk9-dev.

Regards,
Volker

> -Alan.