Review request: Zero buildsystem changes

[Gary Benson]

Hi all,

As an update to my previous message, the HotSpot part of this patch
was tested and pushed to hotspot-comp last night, so the remaining
code for review is this:

  http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~gbenson/zero-11-build/

I'm going on vacation on Friday 16, returning Monday 26, so could
anyone replying off-list please Cc gnu_andrew at member.fsf.org, who
is going to handle this in my absence.  We'd love to see this in
in time for Milestone 5, and we'd hate to miss the boat because
an email was sitting in my inbox unread!

Thanks,
Gary

Gary Benson wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> Zero is an interpreter-only port of HotSpot that uses no assembler and
> can trivially be built on any Linux system.  The following two webrevs
> add Zero support to OpenJDK:
> 
>   http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~gbenson/zero-11-build/
>   http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~gbenson/zero-11-hotspot/
> 
> The bulk of the changes are in the zero-11-hotspot webrev, which has
> been through a couple of review cycles and is (hopefully!) about to
> be tested with JPRT and pushed.
> 
> The zero-11-build webrev contains a small number of changes, mostly
> to makefiles, that are required in order to build OpenJDK with Zero.
> Is this the right list to review these changes?
> 
> Cheers,
> Gary
> 
> -- 
> http://gbenson.net/
>
> 
> Build Instructions
> ==================
> 
> There are a number of environment variables that need setting before
> running make, but if you are using jdk/make/jdk_generic_profile.sh
> to set up your environment then you only need to set one, and a build
> can be as simple as:
> 
>   export ZERO_BUILD=true
>   . jdk/make/jdk_generic_profile.sh
>   gmake sanity && gmake
> 
> The mandatory environment variable does the following:
> 
>   ZERO_BUILD
>     Setting ZERO_BUILD to "true" will cause the Zero interpreter to
>     be used.  If ZERO_BUILD is unset, or set to any other value than
>     "true", the standard, platform-specific interpreter will be used.
> 
> Of the other environment variables the following are required when
> ZERO_BUILD is set to "true".  These are set by
> jdk/make/jdk_generic_profile.sh based on the result of uname -m:
> 
>   ZERO_LIBARCH
>     This is the name of the architecture-specific subdirectory under
>     $JAVA_HOME/jre/lib.  Typically this will be the same as the output
>     of uname -m, although there are some exceptions: "amd64" instead
>     of "x86_64", for example, and "i386" instead of "i686".
> 
>   ZERO_ARCHDEF
>     The value of ZERO_ARCHDEF will be passed to the C++ compiler using
>     -D${ZERO_ARCHDEF} to allow conditionalized platform-specific code.
>     This is typically set to ZERO_LIBARCH converted to uppercase but,
>     again, there are exceptions.  "i386" becomes "IA32", to match what
>     HotSpot already does, and on platforms with both 32- and 64-bit
>     variants ZERO_ARCHDEF corresponds to the 32-bit version, so both
>     ppc and ppc64 have ZERO_ARCHDEF set to "PPC".
> 
>   ZERO_ENDIANNESS
>     This is set to "little" or "big".
> 
>   ARCH_DATA_MODEL
>     This is set to "32" or "64".
> 
>   ZERO_ARCHFLAG
>     This is a flag that will be passed to the C++ compiler and to the
>     linker to instruct them to generate code for the particular
>     platform.  This is required for platforms with both 32- and 64-bit
>     variants where the compiler needs to be told which variant to
>     build for.  ZERO_ARCHFLAG will typically be set to "-m32" or
>     "-m64", except on 31-bit zSeries where it will be set to "-m31".
> 
> Zero uses one external library, libffi, for JNI method invocation.
> The following two variables are used to tell the compiler and linker
> how to find libffi.  These can be set by the user, but if left unset
> then jdk/make/jdk_generic_profile.sh will attempt to set them using
> pkg-config or, failing that, by supplying defaults pointing to the
> standard locations:
> 
>   LIBFFI_CFLAGS
>     Flags to be passed to the C++ compiler to build against libffi.
>     If unset (and pkg-config is not installed, or if libffi is not
>     built with pkg-config) then this defaults to "".
> 
>   LIBFFI_LIBS
>     Flags to be passed to the linker to link against libffi.  If
>     unset (and pkg-config is not installed, or if libffi is not
>     built with pkg-config) then this defaults to "-lffi".


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