RFR: JDK-8071651: infinite build loops in 9-dev windows platform on Jan 26

[Alan Bateman]

On 28/01/2015 10:46, Erik Joelsson wrote:
> Hello,
>
> Please review this followup fix for the vardeps patch (JDK-8069261). 
> It seems that in Cygwin, when running gnu make 3.82, whitespace isn't 
> stripped in the exact same way as on other versions of gnumake that I 
> have tested (4.0 on all platforms, 3.81 on linux). The fix to this 
> problem was to change the string equals macro that I created and strip 
> the arguments in that.
>
> Added a test that reproduces the problem.
>
> Bug: https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-8071651
> Webrev: http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~erikj/8071651/webrev.root.01/
The stripping in MakeBase.gmk looks okay to me. Also the test to check 
equals looks okay too.

-Alan