WIP: Update makeGen to use standard XML parser

[renfeiw]

Signed-off-by: Renfei Wang renfeiw@ca.ibm.com

[renfeiw]

reviewer: @llxia

[llxia]

Please make sure to update Prerequisites in the readme file.

[mstoodle]

@renfeiw @llxia what's the current status here, please?

[renfeiw]

We are still waiting for perl XML::Parser module to be installed on all machines.

[smlambert]

Blocked by infra issue (/runtimes/tooling/issues/290).

[DanHeidinga]

@renfeiw @llxia Is this still relevant? If so can we get it finished off?

[renfeiw]

This is not a mandotory, the current parsing code (written by ourselves) works without any problem so far. But it may require more effort to add any new parsing feature. To utilize the standard parser, we need to have perl XML::Parser module installed on all the machines. @AdamBrousseau Do we already have it installed?

[AdamBrousseau]

I see XML Parser in the Adopt Unix playbooks here. So it may be on some machines. I recall an issue on this a while back. I could try and dig it up. We would have to verify all the machines have it. I assume it would be needed on any machine we compile test material on, ie. any machine we test on.

[llxia]

@AdamBrousseau Do you have any update on this? We would like to use the standard XML parser. Thanks.

[AdamBrousseau]

I don't think it is installed on all the machines. Please open an issue at Adopt/openjdk-infrastructure to add it to the remaining playbooks.

[llxia]

Change is merged in #4785
Close this PR.