Support building zero with the new build

[Omair Majid]

Hi,

On 03/27/2013 04:55 AM, Erik Joelsson wrote:
> Work on this was already initiated in this thread:
> 
> http://mail.openjdk.java.net/pipermail/build-infra-dev/2013-February/003059.html
> 

Whoops. I was not aware of this. Thanks for pointing this out.

> Would be good if these efforts could be synchronized.

Yes, this would be great. I am happy to throw away all my changes and
help improve Roman's patch.

> I like that you define and translate these hotspot specific variables in
> hotspot-spec.gmk.

I had the feeling that my patch would become a lot less desirable if it
started touching hotspot ;)

> I don't think we need to change any variables in
> hotspot for this to work as was done in the other thread. ZERO_ARCHDEF
> should maybe belong to platform.m4, not sure, but might as well be
> defined where you have it. However, checking for libraries would be
> better moved to libraries.m4 I think.

One thing worth pointing out is that my patch only addresses zero, while
Roman's patch addresses both zero and shark.

Roman, how do you want to proceed?

Thanks,
Omair

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