[8u] RFR: 8035495: Improvements in autoconf integration AND 8035825

[Kevin Walls]

Thanks Magnus.   I'll also be doing the related 8035730.  That's a clean 
backport so will go straight to 8u-dev group.

Thanks
Kevin


On 12/04/2018 13:05, Magnus Ihse Bursie wrote:
> Looks good to me.
>
> /Magnus
>
> On 2018-04-11 17:38, Kevin Walls wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> I'd like to request review of this backport from 9 to 8u:
>>
>> 8035495: Improvements in autoconf integration
>> JBS: https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-8035495
>>
>> 9 changeset:
>> URL:   http://hg.openjdk.java.net/jdk9/dev/rev/6e29cd9ac2b4
>> User:  ihse
>> Date:  2014-02-24 12:31:07 +0000
>>
>> 9 review thread: 
>> http://mail.openjdk.java.net/pipermail/build-dev/2014-February/011963.html
>>
>>
>> This mostly imports to 8u, but requires some manual editing as one 
>> chunk in each of common/autoconf/autogen.sh,
>> common/autoconf/basics.m4, and common/autoconf/configure didn't 
>> import, plus regenerating generated-configure.sh.
>>
>>
>> There was a follow-on bug which I'll apply at the same time, which was:
>>
>> 8035825: Warn instead of fail when calling the configure wrapper 
>> directly
>> JBS: https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-8035825
>>
>> 9 changeset:
>> URL:   http://hg.openjdk.java.net/jdk9/dev/rev/e7872d8abd12
>> User:  ihse
>> Date:  2014-02-27 08:20:50 +0000
>>
>> 9 review: 
>> http://mail.openjdk.java.net/pipermail/build-dev/2014-February/011988.html
>>
>> This required some manual editing just for the change at the start of 
>> common/autoconf/configure.
>>
>>
>> 8u webrev with them both applied: 
>> http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~kevinw/8035495/webrev.00/
>>
>> (8035496 is committed in there, 8035825 is not)
>>
>>
>> Many thanks!
>> Kevin
>>
>>
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