Attempting to build from an openjdk branch no longer works

[sxa]

What are you trying to do? Build from a branch of hotspot in order to test a fix: https://ci.adoptopenjdk.net/job/build-scripts/job/jobs/job/jdk/job/jdk-aix-ppc64-hotspot/638/console

Expected behaviour: VARIANT=hotspot with -r and -b settings for BUILD_ARGS work properly as per the FAQ

Observed behaviour:

Loading library openjdk-jenkins-helper@null
Examining [adoptium/jenkins-helper](https://github.com/adoptium/jenkins-helper)
Attempting to resolve null as a branch
Attempting to resolve null as a tag
ERROR: Could not resolve null
[Pipeline] }
[Pipeline] // node
[Pipeline] End of Pipeline
ERROR: No version null found for library openjdk-jenkins-helper
Finished: FAILURE

Any other comments: This was using the -hotspot job instead of -temurin so it's possible this is the result of not regenerating the -hotspot jobs. We'll need to check the implications on the other variants that we build if this is the case.

In fact, this seems to make no difference whether the fork/branch option are specified as it "breaks" with the default parameters on the hotspot jobs too https://ci.adoptopenjdk.net/job/build-scripts/job/jobs/job/jdk/job/jdk-aix-ppc64-hotspot/640/console

Possibly related to https://github.com/adoptium/ci-jenkins-pipelines/pull/496 @zdtsw @andrew-m-leonard

[zdtsw]

looks like the job is missing HELPER_REF BUILD_REF and CI_REF

from https://ci.adoptopenjdk.net/job/build-scripts/job/jobs/job/jdk/job/jdk-aix-ppc64-hotspot/build?delay=0sec

compare with https://ci.adoptopenjdk.net/job/build-scripts/job/jobs/job/jdk/job/jdk-alpine-linux-x64-temurin/build?delay=0sec

[zdtsw]

and this job is not generated by https://ci.adoptopenjdk.net/job/build-scripts/job/utils/job/pipeline_jobs_generator_jdk/ ?

do we have a list of all the manual created jobs? these all need to be updated with new parameters.

[andrew-m-leonard]

@sxa @zdtsw The above is a "hotspot" build not a "temurin" one, the change only changed the "temurin" template I suspect

[andrew-m-leonard]

temurin is the only jdk-20 target configuration: https://github.com/adoptium/ci-jenkins-pipelines/blob/5d694972320e48bb3f5e12fbacef496f55ef5617/pipelines/jobs/configurations/jdk20.groovy#L17