On Tue, Oct 28, 2014 at 11:40:49AM +0100, Erik Joelsson wrote: > Hello, > > Please review this small fix when using sjavac. When using a bootjdk > that was built at a later date than when the source tree was > initially cloned, there is a risk that sjavac will pick up classes > from the boot classpath (rt.jar of boot jdk) instead of the source > files, concluding that the source files won't need to be built. This > is only an issue when building classes that are also present in the > boot classpath of the bootjdk, which we normally do since we are > building the jdk. > > The fix is to add a special option for this use case, which forces > sjavac to build source files if found, regardless of class file > dates.
Did we get any closure on this? Background discussion on compiler-dev (subject: "timestamp oddities -sourcepath vs zip/jar") Joel, did you come to the conclusion that adding -XXuserPathsFirst would not solve our issues? (Or did I missunderstand you?) -- Andreas
