Removal of the old build system, partial review

[Jonathan Gibbons]

Removal of langtools files OK.

-- Jon

On 10/30/2013 07:22 AM, Magnus Ihse Bursie wrote:
> I have started working on removing the old build system. See 
> https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-8027566.
>
> I plan do to this in several steps. I have not decided wether to 
> commit these steps as separate bugs, or just use this division to 
> facilitate developing and reviewing the fix. (Feedback on this 
> appreciated!)
>
> As a first step, I identified all files that was not used at all 
> anymore, and deleted these. The webrev I'm publishing here contains 
> these deletes.
>
> As a second step, I'm processing the remaining files and see why they 
> are still used, from where, and if they can move to better places. A 
> lot of them are only used in closed sources, and should therefore move 
> to the closed repositories. Some of them are used by the new build 
> system, and should be integrated into the new build system instead.
>
> Finally, I plan to move the new build system from "makefiles" to the 
> now-more-or-less-empty "make" directories. For a full rationale of 
> this, please see the JBS bug. In short: it makes no sense to have to 
> make directories, and we can't get rid of the "make" directory anyhow.
>
> But in this step is just the removal of the non-problematic parts of 
> the old build. If you see anything being removed here that should not 
> be, please let me now!
>
> Also, I have replaced the old top-level Makefile with the contents of 
> NewMakefile.gmk.
>
> (The .jcheck removals are just while I'm working, I couldn't find an 
> easy way to hide them in the webrev. I do not intend to check them in).
>
> WebRev: 
> http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~ihse/remove-old-build-part-1/webrev.02
>
> /Magnus
>