RFR: JDK-8197571 Change storage location for generated-configure.sh

[Tim Bell]

Magnus:

Looks good to me as well.

/Tim

On 02/12/18 06:31, Volker Simonis wrote:
> Hi Magnus,
>
> thanks for doing this change. It was actually on my TODO list but I
> somehow forgot about it :)
>
> The change looks good. Thumb up from me,
> Volker
>
> On Mon, Feb 12, 2018 at 2:09 PM, Magnus Ihse Bursie
> <magnus.ihse.bursie at oracle.com> wrote:
>> In JDK-8195689, the generated-configure.sh was no longer checked in, but
>> locally generated. The selected location for generation ($TOPDIR/.build) was
>> not unproblematic for some use cases. This patch attempts remedy this.
>>
>> The new behaviour will be this:
>>   * If run from $TOPDIR, the storage directory will be
>> $TOPDIR/build/.configure-support.
>>   * If run from $CUSTOM_ROOT, the storage directory will be
>> $CUSTOM_ROOT/build/.configure-support.
>>   * If run from any other directory (about to become the build output
>> directory for the configuration), the storage directory will be
>> $PWD/configure-support.
>>
>> This will allow "rm -rf $TOPDIR/build" to function as before to remove all
>> build artifacts. It will allow configuration created in out-of-tree
>> directories to have the script generated locally.
>>
>> I could not put the output file in build/$BUILD/configure-support, since the
>> $BUILD name is not yet determined. I did not want to put it in
>> build/configure-support, since that would make it look like a configuration
>> to the code that enumerates configurations in build.
>>
>> I hope this addresses all issues that has been raised.
>>
>> Bug: https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-8197571
>> WebRev:
>> http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~ihse/JDK-8197571-change-storage-location-for-generated-configure/webrev.01
>>
>> /Magnus
>>