Improving the management and accessibility of the handling of JDK variants

[Magnus Ihse Bursie]

On 2013-11-18 21:05, David Holmes wrote:
> Of course these configuration points have been defined based on our 
> needs for the Oracle JDK versus OpenJDK, so there is no claim of 
> general applicability or suitability for all potential users who want 
> to customize the build and/or sources. Happy to adapt in reasonable 
> ways of course.

I agree.

We have a couple of systems in place for building with custom additions, 
and different variants. But they are adapted to what we needed.

Dave, if you can specify more precisely what kind of additions and 
alterations you need, I can suggest ways to do that, that is likely to 
fit in the OpenJDK build system, and that might help to develop these 
hooks into more generally useful ones. But unfortunately it is quite 
dependent on exactly what kind of additions that are needed.

/Magnus