[8u-dev] Request for Approval for CR JDK-8027584: disable ccache by default

[Kevin Walls]

Oops.

Subject: Re: [8u-dev] Request for Approval for CR JDK-8027584: disable 
ccache by default


On 17/03/2018 21:17, Kevin Walls wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'd like to request approval to push a backport of:
>
> JBS: https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-8027584
>
> 9 changeset: http://hg.openjdk.java.net/jdk9/dev/rev/a757bcc8bbe4
>
> 8u webrev: http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~kevinw/8027584/webrev.00/
>
> It's actually a clean backport/import, except the change of 
> DATE_WHEN_GENERATED which is a date, which I set to the current time 
> when I built this change recently.
>
> This bug hits people building on Windows on certain versions of 
> cygwin, and builds fail with a really quite obscure file not found 
> error which appears to make no sense, then you find JDK-8027584. Yes 
> you can "bash configure --disable-ccache" and carry but I don't think 
> everybody should need to know that every time.  8-) The change lets me 
> build OK on my laptop where I previously hit that problem, and in JPRT 
> runs on all the jdk 8 platforms.
>
> Many thanks
> Kevin
>
>