RFR: 8149594 - Clean up Hotspot makefiles

[David Holmes]

Jesper,

Magnus is rewriting all of the hotspot build system. Are these cleanups 
really worthwhile at this stage?

David

On 11/02/2016 8:10 AM, Jesper Wilhelmsson wrote:
> Sending again to include the build-dev list.
> /Jesper
>
> Den 10/2/16 kl. 21:31, skrev Jesper Wilhelmsson:
>> Hi,
>>
>> Please review this cleanup of the Hotspot makefiles.
>>
>> Since I have been spending some time in the makefiles lately there
>> were a few
>> random cleanups that I couldn't stop myself from doing. Most of these
>> are made
>> to make the linux and bsd makefiles more alike. This has helped a lot
>> when
>> porting the framework to the different platforms.
>>
>> There are a couple of preparing alignment changes that I included in this
>> cleanup to make the Google test patch easier to review later.
>>
>> There are also a couple of "real" changes:
>>
>> * In make/bsd/makefiles/buildtree.make we set up OS_VENDOR with the
>> motivation
>> that we don't include defs.make. Three lines below we include defs.make.
>>
>> * In make/bsd/makefiles/buildtree.make the 'install' target depends on
>> 'install_jsigs'. There is no rule called 'install_jsigs', it is called
>> 'install_jsig'.
>>
>>
>> Another difference that I find interesting but that I have not changed
>> in this
>> patch (I can do that if requested) is that in the bsd version of
>> fastdebug.make
>> VERSION is set to "fastdebug" but in the linux version it is set to
>> "optimized".
>> Given the name of the makefile fastdebug seems more correct, but
>> whichever is
>> the correct value, shouldn't they be the same on linux and bsd?
>>
>>
>> https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-8149594
>> http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~jwilhelm/8149594/webrev.00/
>>
>> Thanks,
>> /Jesper