On Fri, Mar 28, 2025 at 10:43 AM Alan Bateman <alan.bate...@oracle.com> wrote:
> On 28/03/2025 09:25, Galder Zamarreno wrote: > > : > > However, @Thomas Fitzsimmons <fitz...@redhat.com> had a very good point > to make: > > > I also wonder why the test harness is passing --date $SOURCE_DATE_EPOCH, > since the test jars are not distributed, not sure why they'd need to be > reproducible... > > I think his question is valid. Why pass --date for a test jar? > > > I'm not sure what "test harness" and "test jar" means here but just to say > that jrt-fs.jar is in the JDK run-time. > ^ Are you sure? The default make target, `exploded-image`, doesn't build the jrt-fs.jar. Aside from `test`, `images` does build the jar. > When an IDE running on JDK X needs to build/run a project for target JDK Y > then it will use the jrt file system to access the classes in the target > JDK. jrt-fs.jar is the provider implementation that JDK X will load to do > this. > If the jar does not mean, seems like an exploded image jdk won't work for ^? > > -Alan >
