Is the "skip boot cycle" trick still needed?

[Magnus Ihse Bursie]

On 2012-09-11 01:00, Jonathan Gibbons wrote:
> Can we have a makefile target that invokes your script?   E.g. make 
> full-build.
>
> It is easier to document the list of public targets supported by the 
> Makefiles than to describe a set of assorted extra scripts. And, it 
> would fit more uniformly into the JPRT infrastructure.

I agree that the boot cycle build fits better in as a make target.

I have written an alternative solution for performing a boot cycle 
build, which I am about to check in. Now there is a new target, 
"bootcycle-images" which basically does:
1) make images
2) make images but with a new output directory 
(build/<conf-name>/bootcycle-build) and using the previously build image 
as bootjdk, instead of the one specified to configure.

As a result of implementing this, the autoconf files got some nice 
cleanup and refactoring as well. :-)

/Magnus