On Wed, 29 Nov 2023 06:45:17 GMT, Jaikiran Pai <j...@openjdk.org> wrote:

> Can I please get a review of this change will attempts to workaround an issue 
> in dsymutil?
> 
> The previous attempt to use `--reproducer Off` has shown that it fails to 
> build on some other Xcode versions other than 14.3.1. Users have reported it 
> to fail on  Xcode 15.0.1 and Xcode from a 12.4 devkit. The `--reproducer` 
> option isn't being recognized on those versions.
> 
> This current PR proposes to use an alternate workaround, one which just sets 
> an environment variable that Xcode 14.3.1 recognizes and prevents the 
> creation of the leftover `dsymutil-*` temporary directories. Since this new 
> approach uses an environment variable to workaround the issue, the command 
> itself shouldn't ideally run into any usage issues. Once we agree upon this 
> change, before integrating, I'll ask for inputs from those who had run into 
> build issues to verify this alternate approach doesn't cause problems.
> 
> I have locally verified that this new approach continues to work and doesn't 
> create those temporary directories. Additionally tier1, tier2, tier3 has 
> completed successfully in our CI environment with this change.
> 
> Magnus, Erik, I looked around to see if there's any convention in setting 
> such environment variables that will be used when invoking external tools 
> during the build. I didn't find any similar usage. Although the current 
> change in this PR is working, if there's a different and better way to do 
> this, please do let me know.

This pull request has now been integrated.

Changeset: 6f7bb79a
Author:    Jaikiran Pai <j...@openjdk.org>
URL:       
https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/commit/6f7bb79a5b543ebd9ccd72d7b1b289b1f6e4cedb
Stats:     11 lines in 1 file changed: 11 ins; 0 del; 0 mod

8320931: [REDO] dsymutil command leaves around temporary directories

Reviewed-by: ihse, clanger

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PR: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/pull/16876

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