Thanks for that, and I did have to get a newer version of jtreg. I was able to find a binary here http://download.java.net/openjdk/jtreg/ which saved me the trouble of having to build it from source.
On Wed, Jul 17, 2013 at 5:13 PM, Mike Duigou <mike.dui...@oracle.com> wrote: > I have created JDK-8019481 to improve detection of jtreg located on the > path. > > Jon's advice about getting a more recent version of jtreg than what ubuntu > provides almost certainly applies as well. > > Mike > > On Jul 8 2013, at 22:59 , Matthew Butner wrote: > > > Not sure if this is the right place to ask or not, and if it isn't, > please > > direct me to the correct forum but I have been trying all day to use > jtreg > > to test my jdk 1.8 build with no success. > > > > Here is my problem: > > I am running ubuntu and have used the apt center to install jtreg. This > > means that jtreg and jtdiff are installed under /usr/bin. When I run the > > configure script it does not automatically detect jtreg and when I try > > running it with the --with-jtreg=/usr/bin/jtreg or /usr/bin it fails > > because it is trying to find the executable inside subdirectories that do > > not exist because I did not install jtreg from source. > > > > I tried to work around this by modifying line 16463 > > JTREGEXE="$JT_HOME/win32/bin/jtreg" > > to > > JTREGEXE="$JT_HOME/jtreg" > > > > which made it detect jtreg but the command in the readme > > *cd test && make PRODUCT_HOME=`pwd`/../build/*/images/j2sdk-image all > > > > *still fails because it is still trying to look in > > /usr/bin/win32/bin/jtreg > > > > and win32/bin/jtreg does not exist. > > > > Any help would be greatly welcome but if possible I don't want to have to > > install jtreg from source as that is a whole other can of worms. > > > > Thank you, > > Matthew > >