> On 11 feb 2015, at 09:27, Magnus Ihse Bursie <magnus.ihse.bur...@oracle.com> > wrote: > > On 2015-02-11 09:23, David Holmes wrote: >> On 11/02/2015 6:09 PM, Magnus Ihse Bursie wrote: >>> On 2015-02-11 02:35, David Holmes wrote: >>>> Hi Magnus, >>>> >>>> On 11/02/2015 12:23 AM, Magnus Ihse Bursie wrote: >>>>> Here is an addition to the build system, that will compile native >>>>> libraries and executables and make them available for JTReg tests >>>>> written in Java. >>>> >>>> Sorry I'm missing the basics here: when does this compilation take >>>> place? As part of a normal build? Where will the build artifacts go? >>> >>> This is the first application of the new test-image/product-images >>> separation we discussed previously. :) >>> >>> These tests are built as part of the "test-image" target. (Actually, >>> they are built by individual rules like build-test-jdk-jtreg-native, and >>> the relevant parts are put into the test image by >>> test-image-jdk-jtreg-native, which test-image depends on.) >> >> Okay so if I just cd into hotspot/test and use the Makefile to try and run >> some jtreg tests it looks to me that it will define an invalid -nativepath > > I'm not sure if that is a supported use case. David or Staffan will have to > answer to that. I have not tested that, only the "whole forest" approach.
I’ve never done that. I’m always running all make commands from the top level. Is there a problem with that? /Staffan > > /Magnus
