jdk/src/solaris - time to re-visit it?

[Alan Bateman]

In the jdk repository then src/solaris has all the Solaris and Linux 
code. Most of it is used for both platforms with a small number of files 
specific to one or the other. I'm sure this has come up before (probably 
many times) but I'd like to bring it up again.

One of motives for bringing this up now is the Mac OS X port is coming. 
It adds/changes code in src/solaris and also adds a lot of code to a new 
tree src/macosx. Another motivation is patches from IBM folks which are 
really just changes to workaround the fact that we've got code for 
several platforms in the same directory. As I look through src/solaris 
now it is clear that we have taken several approaches to this. In some 
cases we've got Solaris* files, in other cases we rename files during 
the build.

The purpose of this mail is just to probe and see if anyone has thought 
about this problem recently. I'm not suggesting anything specific except 
to see whether it's worth thinking about how we might change this in the 
future. I've no doubt that there isn't a perfect solution to this and 
clearly any changes will be disruptive (but there's no harm discussing 
possible options).

-Alan.