Early Access Build Test Results

[Stuart Marks]

On 1/11/13 2:54 PM, Jonathan Gibbons wrote:
> I suggest there should be a new test/Makefile target for "run all recommended
> tests in a single jtreg run".

I think this would be ideal. Implicitly, then, Balchandra's script would just 
invoke this makefile target, as would other internal build/test systems. This 
would eliminate copying of information about these targets out of the Makefiles 
into external scripts, where they'll inevitably get out of date.

I say this is ideal, but this is probably more difficult to achieve than one 
might think. Not impossible, but probably somewhat tedious.

The "test sets" are defined redundantly in *two* properties files, 
TOP/make/jprt.properties and TOP/jdk/make/jprt.properties. They are mostly the 
same, though there are some small differences. I'm not sure if that's 
intentional. Note also that these aren't plain properties files; they use some 
kind of variable interpolation and string substitution syntax I'm not familiar 
with.

Then, there are the makefiles. Oh, the makefiles. Mainly, they are 
TOP/test/Makefile, TOP/jdk/test/Makefile, and TOP/langtools/test/Makefile. (I 
don't know how the JVM tests are invoked; probably TOP/hotspot/test/Makefile.)

It looks to me like each of the Makefiles defines several individual test 
targets, each of which invokes a run of jtreg. Most of these are in the jdk 
repo. There seem to be targets that invoke "all" of the tests (but not test 
sets), but I think the "all tests" target just depends on the individual 
targets, so it'll still invoke jtreg once for each individual target.

Some cleaning up and rearrangement is called for here. There is some 
redundancy, but it would be preferable to have all the redundancy within files 
in the forest (as painful as it is) than to have redundant information copied 
into external scripts.

In short, it's a mess.

s'marks