* Erik Joelsson: > A minor mistake in JDK-8244036 is causing the javac server to never be > used, which is rather severly increasing build times. > > Before that change, the global variable ENABLE_SJAVAC was used to > determine if the server should be activated. After the change, the > global variable has changed names to ENABLE_JAVAC_SERVER. The > conditional in JavaCompilation.gmk tries to check the value of the local > variable/parameter $1_ENABLE_JAVAC_SERVER instead, but this parameter is > never set or given a default. I don't think we need a local > variable/parameter for this as there is currently no need to disable the > server for any specific SetupJavaCompilation call, so I my fix is to > just refer directly to the global variable from configure/spec.gmk instead. > > Bug: https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-8244210 > > Webrev: http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~erikj/8244210/webrev.01/webrev/
I'm happy to report that this brings back the build times to normal.
