Hi Ioi, I'm really happy we found such a simple workaround for this annoying problem and hope it'll greatly reduce CNFE in our test runs.
the fix looks good to me. Thanks, -- Igor > On Oct 6, 2017, at 1:19 PM, Ioi Lam <ioi....@oracle.com> wrote: > > Please review this very simple change: > > https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-8188828 > http://ioilinux.us.oracle.com/webrev/jdk10/8188828_compiler_test_class_not_found.v01/ > > The dependency of > > FileInstaller -> Utils -> JDKToolLauncher -> Platform > > has caused many intermittent ClassNotFoundException in the hotspot nightly > runs. > While this fix does not address the root cause (proper dependencies are not > specified in the test cases -- which we are planning to fix), we will > hopefully > see much fewer occurrences of this annoying failure scenario. > > Thanks a lot to Igor for suggesting the simple fix! > > - Ioi >