RFR: JDK-8036003: Add --with-debug-symbols=[none|internal|external|zipped]

[Omair Majid]

* Yasumasa Suenaga <yasuenag at gmail.com> [2015-11-16 04:38]:
> I would like to propose JDK-8036003: Add --with-debug-symbols=[none|internal|external|zipped] .
> 
> I had posted this enhancement which provides new make variable [1].
> But it does not fit current jdk 9. So I propose it again as new configure option.
>
> I'm sure that this enhancement helps Linux distros to package OpenJDK.
> For example, if you create RPM package of OpenJDK, you have to pass many make variables [2].

A big +1 on having this. It would make the life of those of us packaging
this for linux distributions quite a bit easier if this was officially
supported upstream.

> Could you review it?
>   http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~ysuenaga/JDK-8036003/webrev.00/

I am a bit unsure about the interaction of --enable-debug-symols and
--with-debug-symbols. Setting ENABLE_DEBUG_SYMBOLS to 'false' for
'internal' seems a bit surprising. Could you clarify why leaving
ENABLE_DEBUG_SYMOLS to true is a bad idea?

Thanks,
Omair

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