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
>
>

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