RFR (XS): Enable new build on Linux/PPC64 (jdk part)

[Alan Bateman]

On 26/06/2013 17:53, Vladimir Kozlov wrote:
> Erik,
>
> We have special staging forest for PPC64/AIX port:
>
> http://hg.openjdk.java.net/ppc-aix-port/stage
>
> We collect Hotspot and JDK changes there for testing before pushing 
> into main sources in a future. But some general fixes we push directly 
> into our main sources.
> If you think these build changes are acceptable for main, please, ask 
> someone sponsor these changes.
>
> Alan is our official contact for PPC64/AIX project. I CC him.

I reviewed/supported the JEP but I didn't realize I was an "official 
contact" :-)

I skimmed over the webrev and don't see anything obviously wrong but as 
Erik points out, this is port specific and it looks like the staging 
forest would be more appropriate.

-Alan