RFR: 7113349 JDK8 port to macosx

[Alan Bateman]

On 27/02/2012 23:47, David Holmes wrote:
> :
>
> General meta comment: When this stuff went into 7u my biggest 
> complaint was that it introduced a mass of new platform-specific stuff 
> in places that weren't otherwise platform specific. That still seems 
> to be the case. I was really hoping/expecting that these issues could 
> be resolved before it was merged with JDK8 otherwise they will never 
> be fixed. Eg jdk/make/common/Rules.gmk, 
> jdk/make/common/shared/Defs-java.gmk. It seems to me that many of the 
> specializations could be placed into the platform-specific gmk file(s) 
> instead of polluting the shared ones. In some case though (eg 
> Makefiles where we have to change SUBDIR) it indicates we need a 
> better way to specialize things.
I agree there wasn't as much clean-up done in the jdk7u-dev forest as 
was hoped but I think it would be better to do the clean-up and 
refactoring work that was suggested in jdk8 rather than as part of the 
forward-port. The changes could be back-ported to 7u as appropriate. I 
also suspect that it's not worth putting too much effort into cleaning 
up the make files for jdk8 as they will (we hope) go away once 
build-infra takes over.

-Alan