JDK-8025705

mark.reinhold at oracle.com mark.reinhold at oracle.com
Tue Apr 22 00:23:52 UTC 2014


2014/4/16 14:52 -0700, david.holmes at oracle.com:
> src/closed is Oracle's "custom source" location (hotspot calls it 
> alt_src). If we never saw src/closed in the makefiles, only 
> CUSTOM_SRC_DIR, and guarded with an existence test for a specific 
> directory/file, then that should address your problem. That would be a 
> first step in moving things to the custom makefiles where they belong.
> 
> I'm opposed to the ORACLEJDK variable because I want to maintain the 
> pressure to get this fixed properly. If we hack around it then it will 
> never get cleaned up.

I think it's wrong, in principle, for OpenJDK source code to contain
identifiers naming specific vendors of JDK implementations.  We're not
quite there at the moment, but let's please not add any more.

- Mark



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