Review Request: Build-infra update

[Fredrik Öhrström]

Not by me anyway. In fact, I think that solution is the best one!

//Fredrik

2012/5/23 Jonathan Gibbons <jonathan.gibbons at oracle.com>:
> I wanted to be able to declare fields as native, but that was deemed
> unacceptable.
>
> -- Jon
>
>
> On 05/23/2012 10:05 AM, Alan Bateman wrote:
>>
>> On 23/05/2012 17:50, Kelly O'Hair wrote:
>>>
>>> Has anyone tried creating an unused native method declaration in the
>>> class to trigger the native header
>>> generation?   public native void GenerateNativeHeader();   ???  Is that
>>> too ugly?
>>>
>>> -kto
>>
>> As Jon put it, for the classes in the base module, "we are delicate
>> bootstrapping ground" so if you add something like "private static native
>> void dummy()" rather than the annotation to the classes in the base module
>> then it could be a solution for the short term. This means the following
>> sources in the webrev:
>>
>> src/share/classes/java/lang/Integer.java
>> src/share/classes/java/lang/Long.java
>> src/share/classes/java/net/SocketOptions.java
>> src/windows/classes/sun/nio/ch/PollArrayWrapper.java
>>
>> Also it would be good to remove it from
>> src/share/classes/sun/nio/ch/IOStatus.java too (it got the annotation in the
>> first round).
>>
>> -Alan.
>>
>