Re: Setting BOOT_RTJAR: rt.jar vs. 'sun.boot.class.path'

2013-11-15 Thread Erik Joelsson
Hello Volker, I like this solution, even if it could be viewed as a bit of overkill. /Erik On 2013-11-14 17:35, Volker Simonis wrote: Hi, I wanted to solve "8026964: Building with an IBM J9 boot jdk requires special settings for BOOT_RTJAR" (https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-8026964) a

Re: Setting BOOT_RTJAR: rt.jar vs. 'sun.boot.class.path'

2013-11-15 Thread Volker Simonis
On Fri, Nov 15, 2013 at 12:32 AM, David Holmes wrote: > Hi Volker, > > > On 15/11/2013 2:35 AM, Volker Simonis wrote: >> >> Hi, >> >> I wanted to solve "8026964: Building with an IBM J9 boot jdk requires >> special settings for BOOT_RTJAR" >> (https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-8026964) and

JDK-9008238 Non-orthogonal usage of the configure script and its wrapper

2013-11-15 Thread Dave Pointon
Hi all , Having encountered the above and implemented a/the trivial solution, I would appreciate your guidance as to the next steps. I believe, as I said in the bug, that this would lead to an overall improvement in the usability - especially for the newbie user/builder such as myself. PFA a web

Re: JDK-9008238 Non-orthogonal usage of the configure script and its wrapper

2013-11-15 Thread Alan Bateman
On 15/11/2013 15:32, Dave Pointon wrote: Hi all , Having encountered the above and implemented a/the trivial solution, I would appreciate your guidance as to the next steps. I believe, as I said in the bug, that this would lead to an overall improvement in the usability - especially for the new

Re: JDK-9008238 Non-orthogonal usage of the configure script and its wrapper

2013-11-15 Thread Dave Pointon
On Fri, 2013-11-15 at 15:47 +, Alan Bateman wrote: > On 15/11/2013 15:32, Dave Pointon wrote: > > Hi all , > > > > Having encountered the above and implemented a/the trivial solution, I > > would appreciate your guidance as to the next steps. > > > > I believe, as I said in the bug, that this w

Re: JDK-9008238 Non-orthogonal usage of the configure script and its wrapper

2013-11-15 Thread Alan Bateman
On 15/11/2013 16:03, Dave Pointon wrote: : TFT Alan , I have to admit that I thought that I'd created therein - the description for the Product/Category was 'Java Platform Standard Edition (JDK/JRE)', so I thought that would do it. When you submit an incident to bugs.sun.com then it gets route

RFR(S): JDK-8026964 Building with an IBM J9 boot jdk requires special settings for BOOT_RTJAR

2013-11-15 Thread Volker Simonis
Hi, could you please review the following small webrev: http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~simonis/webrevs/8026964/ It not only fixes bug 8026964 on AIX, but is changes the general way of how to compute BOOT_RTJAR. With the new solution, BOOT_RTJAR is computed right from the system property 'sun.boot.

Re: Setting BOOT_RTJAR: rt.jar vs. 'sun.boot.class.path'

2013-11-15 Thread Volker Simonis
Hi Erik, On Fri, Nov 15, 2013 at 10:09 AM, Erik Joelsson wrote: > Hello Volker, > > I like this solution, even if it could be viewed as a bit of overkill. > thanks:) I've just posted a RFR to the build-dev list: http://mail.openjdk.java.net/pipermail/build-dev/2013-November/011108.html with tw

Re: JDK-9008238 Non-orthogonal usage of the configure script and its wrapper

2013-11-15 Thread Dave Pointon
On Fri, 2013-11-15 at 16:15 +, Alan Bateman wrote: > On 15/11/2013 16:03, Dave Pointon wrote: > > : > > TFT Alan , > > > > I have to admit that I thought that I'd created therein - the > > description for the Product/Category was 'Java Platform Standard Edition > > (JDK/JRE)', so I thought tha

Re: Setting BOOT_RTJAR: rt.jar vs. 'sun.boot.class.path'

2013-11-15 Thread David Holmes
On 15/11/2013 8:36 PM, Volker Simonis wrote: On Fri, Nov 15, 2013 at 12:32 AM, David Holmes wrote: Hi Volker, On 15/11/2013 2:35 AM, Volker Simonis wrote: Hi, I wanted to solve "8026964: Building with an IBM J9 boot jdk requires special settings for BOOT_RTJAR" (https://bugs.openjdk.java.n

Re: RFR(S): JDK-8026964 Building with an IBM J9 boot jdk requires special settings for BOOT_RTJAR

2013-11-15 Thread David Holmes
Hi Volker, The name BOOT_RTJAR seems no longer appropriate. Cheers, David On 16/11/2013 2:23 AM, Volker Simonis wrote: Hi, could you please review the following small webrev: http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~simonis/webrevs/8026964/ It not only fixes bug 8026964 on AIX, but is changes the genera

[7u]: help on jdk/make/common/shared/Defs-windows.gmk

2013-11-15 Thread Francis ANDRE
Hi I am trying to fix the following error $ make sanity jdk/make/common/shared/Defs.gmk:563: *** "ERROR: Trouble with the absolute path for OUTPUTDIR './bui ld/windows-i586'". Stop. and found the following code in jdk/make/common/shared/Defs-windows.gmk, line 109 define FullPath $(if $(wor

Re: RFR(S): JDK-8026964 Building with an IBM J9 boot jdk requires special settings for BOOT_RTJAR

2013-11-15 Thread Kumar Srinivasan
Hi Volker, One thing I notieced, BOOT_RTJAR=`$BOOT_JDK/bin/java -XshowSettings 2>&1 ... I suggest using java -XshowSettings:props -version 2>&1 . props, will narrow down the reporting to only properties section, which is really what you want -version, will allow the launcher to

Re: RFR(S): JDK-8026964 Building with an IBM J9 boot jdk requires special settings for BOOT_RTJAR

2013-11-15 Thread Volker Simonis
Hi Kumar, thanks, that's a good point. I'll incorporate the changes into the webrev. Regards, Volker On Friday, November 15, 2013, Kumar Srinivasan wrote: > > Hi Volker, > > One thing I notieced, > > BOOT_RTJAR=`$BOOT_JDK/bin/java -XshowSettings 2>&1 ... > > I suggest using java -XshowSetti

Re: RFR(S): JDK-8026964 Building with an IBM J9 boot jdk requires special settings for BOOT_RTJAR

2013-11-15 Thread Volker Simonis
On Friday, November 15, 2013, David Holmes wrote: > Hi Volker, > > The name BOOT_RTJAR seems no longer appropriate. Hi Dave, in general, I agree, but that would be a much bigger change. We would have to change multiple repositories (root, jdk, closed???) simultaneously. Do you really want tha

Re: RFR(S): JDK-8026964 Building with an IBM J9 boot jdk requires special settings for BOOT_RTJAR

2013-11-15 Thread David Holmes
On 16/11/2013 5:11 AM, Volker Simonis wrote: On Friday, November 15, 2013, David Holmes wrote: Hi Volker, The name BOOT_RTJAR seems no longer appropriate. Hi Dave, in general, I agree, but that would be a much bigger change. We would have to change multiple repositories (root, jdk, c