[7u12] Request for approval for CR 7201205 - Add Makefile configuration option to build with unlimited crypto in OpenJDK

[Brad Wetmore]

Codereview approved.  It's a direct backport of the JDK8 code.

Brad


On 10/30/2012 1:59 PM, Andrew Hughes wrote:
> Bug: http://bugs.sun.com/bugdatabase/view_bug.do?bug_id=7201205
> OpenJDK8 changeset: http://hg.openjdk.java.net/jdk8/jdk8/jdk/rev/9e879c0288c2
> Review thread for 8: http://mail.openjdk.java.net/pipermail/security-dev/2012-September/005569.html
>
> This patch allows OpenJDK builds to use the unlimited policy if UNLIMITED_CRYPTO is set.
> If UNLIMITED_CRYPTO is not set, the build remains the same as before.
>
> This patch obsoletes the more extensive crypto patch carried by IcedTea6&7 which removed
> several classes in order to remove the need to have policy files at all.  This patch is
> essentially a compromise between that, which obviously couldn't go upstream, and the need
> to ship without cryptography restrictions on GNU/Linux distributions.
>
> The changeset from 8 applies cleanly to 7u.
> Webrev: http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~andrew/7201205/webrev.01/
>