Fwd: 2nd and 3rd tier targets

[Fredrik Öhrström]

2011/11/7 Jonathan Gibbons <jonathan.gibbons at oracle.com>:
> Right now, I imagine you're all busy on what I could describe as the "1st
> tier" targets in the Makefiles -- simply being able to build JDK as needed
> on all platforms.

Indeed! :-)

> I wonder if you've given thought to supporting and/or providing additional
> interesting targets.
>
> For example, I could imagine providing "2nd tier" targets which are of
> interest to all, but which are not required as part of building JDK.
> Running FindBugs or CheckStyle might come into this category.

Absolutely. But I would favor creating shellscripts instead and reserve
make file targets for build artifacts. We could for example add:

common/bin/findbugs.sh
common/bin/checkstyle.sh

we are already adding
common/bin/compareimages.sh

These shell scripts could be pure shell script, or run a jar file, and if the
jar file does not exist, invoke make to create it.

> Then there are
> targets specific to a component, which I call "3rd tier" targets. For
> example, langtools/make/build.xml has a target to run a utility to generate
> an HTML file containing examples of as many as possible of the diagnostics
> that can be run by javac.

Also a shell script, perhaps in langtools/bin?

//Fredrik