> On Mar 8, 2016, at 6:08 AM, Alan Bateman <[email protected]> wrote: > > > On 08/03/2016 07:45, Volker Simonis wrote: >> : >> OK, that would be fine. This problem isn't very urgent but it would be >> good if we could resolve it before the big jake integration into >> jdk9-dev. >> >> > In order, then my preferences for resolving this are: > > 1. Compete the tool separation, meaning JDK-8059035. > > 2. Change these tools to use services so that the SA backend is a service > provider. >
#2 seems to be trivial and I quickly hack up a patch: http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~mchung/jigsaw/webrevs/8059035/webrev.00/ This would need Dmitry and others to help do verification. Mandy > 3. Build-time solution. > > 4. Drop the dependency but compile the launchers for the tools on platforms > that support SA with -addmods jdk.hotspot.agent or ALL-SYSTEM. > > I agree we need to address this soon. > > -Alan.
