Hi, The DEBUG_CLASSFILES variable seems to be completely unused but still defined in the makefiles in jdk9 and jdk8u.
$ grep -rn DEBUG_CLASSFILES Binary file jaxp/.hg/store/data/make/_makefile.i matches Binary file jaxws/.hg/store/data/make/_makefile.i matches build/config.status:876:S["DEBUG_CLASSFILES"]="false" build/config.log:1391:DEBUG_CLASSFILES='false' build/hotspot-spec.gmk:45:DEBUG_CLASSFILES:=false common/autoconf/jdk-options.m4:219: DEBUG_CLASSFILES="false" common/autoconf/jdk-options.m4:227: DEBUG_CLASSFILES="true" common/autoconf/jdk-options.m4:235: DEBUG_CLASSFILES="true" common/autoconf/jdk-options.m4:243: DEBUG_CLASSFILES="false" common/autoconf/jdk-options.m4:315: AC_SUBST(DEBUG_CLASSFILES) common/autoconf/generated-configure.sh:884:DEBUG_CLASSFILES common/autoconf/generated-configure.sh:14627: DEBUG_CLASSFILES="false" common/autoconf/generated-configure.sh:14635: DEBUG_CLASSFILES="true" common/autoconf/generated-configure.sh:14643: DEBUG_CLASSFILES="true" common/autoconf/generated-configure.sh:14651: DEBUG_CLASSFILES="false" common/autoconf/hotspot-spec.gmk.in:45:DEBUG_CLASSFILES:=@DEBUG_CLASSFILES@ In Fedora builds of OpenJDK 7, we used to set this to compile javacode with the -g flag. The new build, through SetupJavaCompilation, completely ignores this flag (looks like "JAVAC_FLAGS" controls this now). Would it be worth it to bring back DEBUG_CLASSFILES flag? Or should it be completely removed? On a slightly related note, what do people think about adding a new "DEBUG_LEVEL" that is basically the same as release, except it sets DEBUG_BINARIES and DEBUG_CLASSFILES/JAVAC_FLAGS to get all debug info? Thanks, Omair -- PGP Key: 66484681 (http://pgp.mit.edu/) Fingerprint = F072 555B 0A17 3957 4E95 0056 F286 F14F 6648 4681
