Review request: 8002365: build-infra: Build-infra fails on solaris 11.1 on sparc

[Erik Joelsson]

This is essentially the patch from Vincent to make build-infra work on 
Solaris 11.1 with some minor adjustments to keep the new and old build 
equal.

http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~erikj/8002365/webrev.01/ 
<http://cr.openjdk.java.net/%7Eerikj/8002365/webrev.01/>

/Erik