Review Request: Build-infra M1 (original) (raw)

Fredrik Öhrström fredrik.ohrstrom at oracle.com
Fri Mar 23 20:25:27 UTC 2012

----- ahughes at redhat.com skrev:

I know that's the current status quo. It seemed to be being suggested that the closed rules be removed from the public Makefiles and kept separately. Maybe I misunderstood.

Well, I guess I would like the closed rules be so simple that the default add/override functionality in the configure script is enough.

With IcedTea, most of the changes are build changes for obvious reasons, so nearly every commit was regenerating configure :-)

The goal for the new build system must be, that for normal OpenJDK development, there should rarely be any need to regenerate configure. The configure script and the makefiles should deal with any normal change/addition/removal of source code and new modules. Configure should only change to manage new platforms, new compilers etc.

//Fredrik

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