On 2013-11-21 07:57, Francis ANDRE wrote:
Hi Erik
Le 20/11/2013 11:06, Erik Joelsson a écrit :
We identified cygwin make's inability to handle driveletter paths as
one of the big problems with the old build system when starting the
build-infra work for jdk8. So we designed the new build system to not
use any mixed paths to avoid this problem.
Yes, you are right for the building of the jdk but that's only a part
of the whole job. When talking about tests -- jtreg in particular --,
you need to go back to the path handled by Java on windows and in that
case, cygwin path does not work at all, only windows path with letter
and '/' are working... So mixed path is a good compromise on windows
for building, testing and delivering the full product....
Then this is something we still need to fix. I wasn't aware of this
until now.
/Erik
