[RFC] Fix Zero and Shark builds

[Volker Simonis]

On Wed, Feb 13, 2013 at 6:21 PM, Roman Kennke <rkennke at redhat.com> wrote:
> First of all, let me tell you how great the new build machinery is: IT
> ROCKS! Thanks for doing this!
>
> These changes introduce the necessary configure- and make-foo to make
> Zero and Shark builds work with the build-infra machinery. With this,
> Zero and Shark builds are as easy as:
>
> bash configure --with-jvm-variants=zero[shark]
> make
>
> it will check for existence of libffi and llvm, and use pkg-config and
> llvm-config to figure out all required variables. This is basically
> adopted from jdk/make/jdk_generic_profile.sh, and now integrated into
> the build.
>
> This only contains the source files, not the regenerated configure
> scripts:
>
> http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~rkennke/zero-build-infra/webrev.00/
>
> Which brings up an interesting question (not sure if that has been
> discussed before). Who is responsible to regenerating the configure
> scripts after a change in the sources? Variances between versions of
> autotools will like create a mess in the diffs and probably unforeseen
> hiccups.
>

That's a really interesting question. I'm pretty sure we will hit this kind
of problems soon for the ppc-aix-port as well when we will start with jdk8.

It would be very much appreciated if somebody form the build group
will provide some advice and guidance here:)

> Also, a small change was required to be able to build images:
>
> http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~rkennke/zero-build-infra-jdk/webrev.01/
>
> Opinions? Can I have a bug-ID? Can I push this?
>
> Best regards,
> Roman
>
>