Need reviewer: fixing some rebranding issues during the build

[Erik Trimble]

On Fri, 2010-05-28 at 09:07 -0700, Kelly O'Hair wrote:
> On May 27, 2010, at 11:10 PM, Erik Trimble wrote:
> 
> > On 5/27/2010 11:05 PM, Joe Darcy wrote:
> >> Kelly O'Hair wrote:
> >>>
> >>> Need reviewer: fixing some rebranding issues during the build
> >>>
> >>> 6949590: exes(java.exe, javaws.exe) show Copyright Year as 2004,  
> >>> COMPANY as Sun
> >>> 6955707: Correct addNotices.sh logic in Makefiles
> >>>
> >>> http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~ohair/openjdk6/rebranding-gensrc/webrev/
> >>>
> >>> -kto
> >>>
> >>
> >> What effect does setting, or not setting, OS_VENDOR have?
> >>
> >> -Joe
> >
> > I've got a couple of those in Hotspot, also, where we've set the  
> > value of something (variable/constant) to "Sun Microsystems".  I  
> > didn't want to change those until I got a better feeling from  
> > development as to what changing them would mean...
> 
> Yes, be very careful with the ones in Hotspot, those actually impact  
> the java property values, and we are not ready to
> change that. Hotspot in particular needs to be careful, because in  
> jdk6 we explicitly are NOT changing these java
> property values, and hotspot sources get delivered into multiple  
> places. There is a separate bug on this one.
> 
> The OS_VENDOR make variable was never used, might have been used a  
> long time ago in the sanity checks
> or summary messages, but it was never a reliable indication of what OS  
> was being used, it was supposed to
> document the required OS vendor for jdk builds, which we kind of  
> abandoned that with OpenJDK.
> We still have a required OS for RE builds, but no vendor name is ever  
> really needed or used now.
> This had nothing to do with the java vendor property values.
> 
> -kto

Yeah, I'm running it past the Hotspot guys right now, and we will
be /very/ careful about changing any of these assigned values.  I'll
likely end up pushing single changesets for each thing I change.



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