RFR(S): JDK-8026964 Building with an IBM J9 boot jdk requires special settings for BOOT_RTJAR

[David Holmes]

On 16/11/2013 5:11 AM, Volker Simonis wrote:
> On Friday, November 15, 2013, David Holmes wrote:
>
>     Hi Volker,
>
>     The name BOOT_RTJAR seems no longer appropriate.
>
>
> Hi Dave,
>
> in general, I agree, but that would be a much bigger change.
> We would have to change multiple repositories (root, jdk, closed???)
> simultaneously.
>
> Do you really want that?

:) Guess not.

David

> Volker
>
>
>     Cheers,
>     David
>
>     On 16/11/2013 2:23 AM, Volker Simonis wrote:
>
>         Hi,
>
>         could you please review the following small webrev:
>
>         http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~__simonis/webrevs/8026964/
>         <http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~simonis/webrevs/8026964/>
>
>         It not only fixes bug 8026964 on AIX, but is changes the general way
>         of how to compute BOOT_RTJAR.
>
>         With the new solution, BOOT_RTJAR is computed right from the system
>         property 'sun.boot.class.path'. The new solution should be more
>         robust
>         and more portable as it doesn't depend on the name of the jar file
>         which contains the boot classes and it also doesn't depend on
>         the fact
>         that all these classes are located in a single jar file.
>
>         In order to avoid build warnings, I've taken extra care to
>         remove jar
>         files and paths from the 'sun.boot.class.path' output which do not
>         exist (e.g. jfr.jar is not available in an OpenJDK build but appears
>         in 'sun.boot.class.path' anyway - maybe this is another bug that
>         should be fixed; also jre/classes appears in 'sun.boot.class.path'
>         although it is not present in the file system - maybe we should fix
>         that as well).
>
>         If we are building on Windows, I convert the content of
>         'sun.boot.class.path'  to Unix form to avoid problems with the
>         FIXPATH
>         utility. Later, during the build, FIXPATH will convert the path list
>         back to Windows form.
>
>         I've tested the new Solution on Linux, Windows, Solaris and AIX and
>         couldn't find any problems.
>
>         I would like to put this into the ppc-aix-port/stage repository
>         but as
>         this is a general fix and if you'd like to, it would be also OK if
>         you'd push it right to the build repository.
>
>         Thank you and best regards,
>         Volker
>