About platform names...

[Magnus Ihse Bursie]

On 2012-08-17 14:24, Magnus Ihse Bursie wrote:
> On 2012-08-17 13:55, Magnus Ihse Bursie wrote:
>> I'm trying to clean up a bit in the platform naming mess. I'm not 
>> quite sure what's the best way to solve it all, so it might take 
>> several iterations before I've sorted it all out. So in case you see 
>> weird checkins, please just hold on for a while more and let me 
>> finish the cleanup and I hope things will start looking better. :)
>
> I now changed the value of OPENJDK_TARGET_CPU, the "new" variable that 
> we're trying to use in build-infra, for the Intel CPUs to x86 and 
> x86_64, respectively. I saw no-one really protesting against my 
> proposal earlier, and I got encouragement for this change from various 
> places.

And, oh, btw, the only really visible way the old values (ia32 and x64) 
was used previously, was in the name of the configurations.

So if you let configure name the configurations for you (the default 
mode of operation), these names will change slightly.

/Magnus