RFC: Forward port icedtea6's debug-dir patch to icedtea7

[Omair Majid]

On 04/27/2011 08:53 AM, Dr Andrew John Hughes wrote:
> On 12:48 Thu 21 Apr     , Omair Majid wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> The debug-dir patch from icedtea6 needs to be added to icedtea7. Without
>> this patch, a 'make icedtea-debug' creates a openjdk.build-debug dir
>> which is essentially empty, but places the build in actually (on my
>> macine) linux-amd64-debug under the current directory.
>>
>> The attached patch is the trivial port. Okay to commit?
>>
>> ChangeLog:
>> 2011-04-21  Omair Majid<omajid at redhat.com>
>>
>>     * Makefile.am (ICEDTEA_PATCHES): Add debug-dir.patch
>>     * patches/debug-dir.patch: New file. Forward port from icedtea6.
>>
>> Cheers,
>> Omair
>
> No.  This needs to go in the IcedTea forest at a minimum, not IcedTea7.
>
> Has this not been pushed upstream?

I think this was originally a backport from upstream. But since then, 
upstream has reverted the change:
http://hg.openjdk.java.net/jdk7/tl/diff/47f6b7db1882/Makefile

So I am not sure if they will be willing to accept this patch. Perhaps 
if it was special cased for non-windows platforms, they might be more 
forthcoming.

Thanks,
Omair