RFR: 7113349 JDK8 port to macosx (original) (raw)

Alan Bateman Alan.Bateman at oracle.com
Tue Feb 28 02:34:14 PST 2012

On 27/02/2012 23:47, David Holmes wrote:

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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

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