Adding asm to JDK 8

[David Holmes]

Hi Jim,

I added build-dev to the cc as this is of general interest. Actually 
before doing this a heads-up should go out to all jdk8-dev I think.

One question: are there any cross-compilation issues with building this? 
I'm assuming not but want to check.

Okay two questions :) : do you know when this will get modularized and 
show up in the jigsaw repositories?

Thanks,
David

On 3/02/2012 9:29 AM, Jim Holmlund wrote:
> This is just a heads up that we are in the process of adding
> http://asm.ow2.org/
>
> to jdk 8 as a new top level repo. This new repo contains the asm source
> code, with a few mods that are needed to build/run it in our
> environment. The new repo also contains the build files needed to
> participate in our forest builds. The main building is done by the asm
> build.xml, with a Makefile wrapper around that in order to participate
> in the forest build. This Makefile dynamically renames the asm packages
> by prepending 'org.openjdk'.
>
> The forest build handles the asm repo in the same was as the other
> repos, eg, corba. The asm repo is built just after langtools, and then
> the resulting .class files are known in the jdk build and are put into
> rt.jar.
>
> The changes for this are:
> - These files are modified/added:
> M Makefile
> M make/Defs-internal.gmk
> M make/README.pre-components
> A make/asm-rules.gmk
> M make/jdk-rules.gmk
> M make/sanity-rules.gmk
> M make/scripts/hgforest.sh
>
> - the new asm repo is built just after langtools
>
> - these files in the jdk repo are modified/added:
> M THIRD_PARTY_README
> M make/Makefile
> M make/common/Release.gmk
> M make/common/internal/ImportComponents.gmk
> M make/common/shared/Defs-control.gmk
> M make/common/shared/Defs.gmk
> M make/common/shared/Sanity-Settings.gmk
> A make/common/internal/Defs-asm.gmk
> A test/org/openjdk/org/objectweb/asm/OmitCommons.java
> A test/org/openjdk/org/objectweb/asm/OmitOptimizer.java
> A test/org/openjdk/org/objectweb/asm/OmitTreeAnalysis.java
> A test/org/openjdk/org/objectweb/asm/OmitUtil.java
> A test/org/openjdk/org/objectweb/asm/OmitXml.java
> A test/org/openjdk/org/objectweb/asm/RequiredAsmClasses.java
>
> These changes have not been reviewed and thus are subject to change.
> Hopefully, this work can be finished in the next couple weeks. But where
> have we heard that before.
>
> Please let me know if you have any questions or need more info.
>
> - jjh
>
>
>