tricks to running awt tests on Mac OS X?

[Alan Bateman]

On 06/11/2012 06:02, Ray Kiddy wrote:
> Hello -
>
> I downloaded jtreg binaries and am running some of the tests on this machine. It is running 10.7.4. I am having no problems updating the source and building jdk7u-dev. And I can run a lot of the tests with no problems. But AWT tests seem not so cooperative. Is there some trick to running these?
>
> It may be a problem that I downloaded the binaries for jtreg. Looking at the build dependencies was giving me a headache. And, at least with java/awt/appletviewer/IOExceptionIfEncodedURLTest/IOExceptionIfEncodedURLTest.sh, the test seems to not know what "Darwin" is? This made me suspect I need a newer jtreg. But this one seemed to be from the official source (i.e. http://download.java.net/openjdk/jtreg/).
>
> The full results from this one are below.
>
> I am trying to run with, for example:
>
> 	% cd jdk7u-dev
> 	% ../jtreg/linux/bin/jtreg \
> 	   -jdk:build/macosx-x86_64/j2sdk-bundle/jdk1.7.0.jdk/Contents/Home \
> 	   -w build/jtreg/test/java/awt/work -r build/jtreg/test/java/awt/report \
> 	   -othervm -verbose:summary -ignore:quiet -automatic test/java/awt
>
> I was running with -samevm. Now I am not. I added -ignore:quiet and -automatic. These did not do much.
>
> If I let the tests run, they take a long time. I cannot see how long the set of tests should take, so I am not sure if they are hung. After a while, there are lots of colored windows hanging around and not much seems to be happening. Sort of like a lava lamp in a cubic universe.
>
> Any info about how these test behave when things are passing would be appreciated.
>
> cheers - ray
>
I don't know anything about the AWT tests but they don't run in samevm 
or agentvm mode. In jdk8 then we've added java/awt to othervm.dirs (a 
property in TEST.ROOT) so that they run in othervm mode even if other 
options are specified to jtreg. It's possible that they can't run 
concurrently either, but this is something that the folks on awt-dev 
will know.

As regards IOExceptionIfEncodedURLTest.sh then it looks to be that this 
hasn't been updated to work on Mac, I least I assume that is what 
"Unrecognized system! Darwin" is. That seems surprising as there was a 
big effort to update the tests to work on Mac. Maybe someone on awt-dev 
can say if the tests will be updated.

-Alan