Testing with JTREG

[Martin Buchholz]

See thread
Status of jtreg build
http://mail.openjdk.java.net/pipermail/jtreg-use/2016-April/thread.html

yes, you need genuine 4.2 b01.
But no one is currently providing such binaries on the Net.
Some people have succeeded in building their own, but it's not easy.

As jjg said, hopefully
https://adopt-openjdk.ci.cloudbees.com/job/jtreg/
will soon get fixed so that it is the one-stop shopping for jtreg binaries.


On Tue, Apr 19, 2016 at 9:45 AM, Andrew Haley <aph at redhat.com> wrote:
> I've recently started to have problems with jtreg.  This one:
>
> JAVA_HOME=/home/aph/hs/build/linux-aarch64-normal-server-release/images/jdk/ ~/jtreg/bin/jtreg -v compiler/intrinsics/string
> Error. Parse Exception: Bad classname provided for `build': java.base/java.lang.Helper
>
> This is my jtreg:
>
> jtreg, version 4.2.0 dev 3204
> Installed in /home/aph/jtreg/lib/jtreg.jar
> Running on platform version 1.8.0-internal from /home/aph/jdk/jre.
> Built with 1.7.0_79 on 09/28/2015 06:55 AM.
> Copyright (c) 1999, 2015, Oracle and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved.
> Use is subject to license terms.
> JCov 2.0-1
> TestNG: version 6.8-201210030754
>
> Is it that I need something newer?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Andrew.