Need to reconsider the self-modifying output

[Scott Kovatch]

Folks,

At some point the build output was changed so that the JDK and JRE bundles were being put into the corresponding xxx-image folders by moving the non-bundled output of xxx-image into xxx-bundle, and then back into xxx-image.

This turns out to be a bad thing to do, as it makes it impossible to build the jdk from itself. After the bundle creation, there are some additional tasks that use jar, but because the jar tool has been moved out of the ALT_BOOTDIR and ALT_JDK_IMPORT_PATH, the build fails.

I will file a bug, but what was the motivation for the current behavior?

-- Scott K.

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Scott Kovatch
scott.kovatch at oracle.com