Running micro benchmark results in 'Error: Unable to access jarfile'

[Jorn Vernee]

Hi,

>>    1.) I did not get a warning when I was missing --with-jmh for 
>> configure, although it looks like there is supposed to be one (without 
>> --with-jmh I got the same access error, but the benchmarks.jar did not 
>> exist).
> 
> --with-jmh is an optional configure flag, not sure what we could do to
> warn here. Perhaps there's some way to ensure certain make targets
> depend on the configure having been run with the necessary 
> prerequistes.
> Sounds like a fine enhancement.

There seems to be a check for this in make/test/BuildMicrobenchmark.gmk 
[2]:

```
ifeq ($(JMH_CORE_JAR), )
   $(info Error: JMH is missing. Please use configure --with-jmh.)
   $(error Cannot continue)
endif
```

But this does not seem to be triggered.

>> I was hoping to use the framework for Panama, so I'd likely have some 
>> native library as dependency of the benchmark. Is there currently any 
>> support for building (native) dependencies automatically?
> 
> There should be support in the build system _somewhere_, but adding a
> native library to a microbenchmark might still be a non-trivial
> enhancement to the current implementation. It'd be a great addition,
> though. I might have time to help out sometime soon, but I've got my
> hands full right now. Perhaps someone else on this list could advice?

The Panama native test sources are being built by 
'make/test/JtregNativeJdk.gmk' I'm not sure it's possible to hook 
directly into that, but maybe it can serve as an example for adding a 
similar feature to the benchmark suite.

I'll try looking into that.

> Thanks!

Thanks for the help!

Jorn

[2] : 
http://hg.openjdk.java.net/jdk/jdk/file/6fb43030a1b4/make/test/BuildMicrobenchmark.gmk#l34

> /Claes
> 
>> 
>> Thanks,
>> Jorn
>> 
>> [1] : 
>> http://hg.openjdk.java.net/jdk/jdk/file/bec6c8739833/make/autoconf/lib-tests.m4#l76