On Wed, 7 May 2025 22:50:52 GMT, Magnus Ihse Bursie <i...@openjdk.org> wrote:
>> If you check out your source code in Cygwin, somewhere under /home/... (as >> opposed to /cygpath/...), IncludeCustomExtension does not work. >> >> The problem is that TOPDIR gets a different lexical value from the spec.gmk >> file when setup in Makefile, even if this was the same directory. Since >> THIS_INCLUDE is calculated as a relative path by string substitution of >> $(TOPDIR), the path failed to relativize correctly. > > Magnus Ihse Bursie has updated the pull request with a new target base due to > a merge or a rebase. The incremental webrev excludes the unrelated changes > brought in by the merge/rebase. The pull request contains three additional > commits since the last revision: > > - Merge branch 'master' into fix-preinit-topdir > - Alternative solution > - 8351029: IncludeCustomExtension does not work on cygwin with source code > below /home There are no obvious place where to put that comment, and I don't want to sprinkle the code with comments about it everwhere it is used. I'd say that those future archaeologists will have to use `git blame` to find this PR, if it is not clear to them how the variable is used... ------------- PR Comment: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/pull/25100#issuecomment-2865783097
