Hello Jason,
Your suggestion makes sense. The only reason these variables have :=
today is that we (at Oracle) haven't had a need for appending to those
particular variables (yet).
/Erik
On 2017-08-29 11:31, Jason Yong wrote:
Hello,
I've had an issue where I've had a custom extension to CompileJavaModules.gmk with the variable java.base_COPY set to files that I wanted to be copied across but its value was overwritten by CompileJavaModules.gmk.
I would like to propose changes that would allow a custom extensions to update variables listed in CompileJavaModules.gmk. This issue is similar to bug JDK-8064372 (https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-8064372) but affects all the other variables such as:
java.activation_SETUP
java.base_ADD_JAVAC_FLAGS
java.base_COPY
java.base_CLEAN
etc
The fix is also similar, changing := to += allowing the custom extension to append to the variable if already set and create it if its not.
I would appreciate any feedback and help on what the next steps would be.
Thanks
Jason
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