Review Request: 7141246 build-infra merge: Introduce new JVM_VARIANT* to control which kind of jvm gets built

Fredrik Öhrström fredrik.ohrstrom at oracle.com
Tue Mar 13 11:11:26 UTC 2012


2012-03-13 12:00, David Holmes skrev:
> That is not really what is happening. KERNEL is gone (going) and MINIMAL 
> is coming. There are few places where it looks like a rename but that's 
> a bit of an over-simplificifation.

Oh, well, to make it easier for the embedded team, we can wait with the
changes to KERNEL
TO MINIMAL in the existing variables, but the new config variables will
be called JVM_VARIANT_MINIMAL etc.

>> that will eventually arrive, as you say.  I see no harm in these changes
>> being pushed now.
>> It will not affect anyone since the actual makefile api (targets) are
>> still called kernel.
> Which means we will have a bunch of non-working targets - right?
No, the old makefiles would behave just as bad as before.

//Fredrik



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