Running jaotc with an external Graal

[Doug Simon]

I don’t know how one patches a module in the middle of the module graph. That is, we use --patch-module and --upgrade-module-path to override the jdk.vm.compiler module in the JDK. I don’t know what that means for modules such as jdk.aot that depend on jdk.vm.compiler. Maybe someone from the AOT or jigsaw team can help.

-Doug

> On 14 Feb 2017, at 12:26, Andrew Haley <aph at redhat.com> wrote:
> 
> Is this possible?  Seems that no matter what I do, aotc always prefers to
> use the internal version of org.graalvm.compiler which is in HotSpot.
> 
> I don't quite get why this is: I can run an external Graal using JVMCI
> with no problems.  I saw "8145337: [JVMCI] JVMCI initialization with
> SecurityManager installed fails:" which might be related, but perhaps
> it's not.
> 
> So, why is it possible to use an external Graal with JVMCI, but
> apparently not with jaotc?  And is there anything I can do to make
> progress?
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Andrew.