[8u-dev] Request for approval: 8035495: Improvements in autoconf integration AND 8035825

[Kevin Walls]

Hi,

I'd like to request approval of this backport from 9 to 8u:

8035495: Improvements in autoconf integration
JBS: https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-8035495
9 changeset: URL: http://hg.openjdk.java.net/jdk9/dev/rev/6e29cd9ac2b4
9 review: 
http://mail.openjdk.java.net/pipermail/build-dev/2014-February/011963.html


There was a follow-on bug which I'll apply at the same time, which was:

8035825: Warn instead of fail when calling the configure wrapper directly
JBS: https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-8035825
9 changeset: URL: http://hg.openjdk.java.net/jdk9/dev/rev/e7872d8abd12
9 review: 
http://mail.openjdk.java.net/pipermail/build-dev/2014-February/011988.html

This required some manual editing just for the change at the start of 
common/autoconf/configure.


8u webrev with them both: 
http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~kevinw/8035495/webrev.00/

build-dev review of the 8u backport: 
http://mail.openjdk.java.net/pipermail/build-dev/2018-April/021665.html

Many thanks!
Kevin