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

Wed Nov 18 18:15:28 UTC 2015

Hi Yasumasa,

Your ideas are somewhat in line with what I've been thinking about debug symbols previously. I like the idea that you should specify what you would like to receive as result of the specification. 

However, as I recall, things were a bit more complicated than this when trying to cover all relevant cases. I'm on vacation this week and do not have access to my old collected thoughts and snippets on the debug information right now. I'll get back to you on Monday. 

However, a few things right now:
 * No logic in spec.gmk. That should be done in the m4 files. Ideally, spec.gmk is just a listing of variables and their contents. 
 * Maybe the name of the flag should reflect the fact that we're talking about native debug information, and not the java classes. Or maybe that's just understood..?

/Magnus

> 16 nov. 2015 kl. 09:38 skrev Yasumasa Suenaga <yasuenag at gmail.com>:
> 
> Hi all,
> 
> 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].
> 
> Could you review it?
>  http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~ysuenaga/JDK-8036003/webrev.00/
> 
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Yasumasa
> 
> 
> [1] http://mail.openjdk.java.net/pipermail/build-dev/2014-February/012019.html
> [2] http://mail.openjdk.java.net/pipermail/distro-pkg-dev/2015-November/034036.html
> 