The JDK's Makefiles are not coherent; they do not look like they were designed using a common architecture.
On Mon, Jun 23, 2008 at 3:17 PM, David Herron <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > CC?=gcc > CPP?=g++ A particularly egregious example is the use of the make variable CPP. Some Makefiles use CPP to mean "C preprocessor", while some use it to mean "C++ compiler". The latter are non-traditional and should be excised. We should use CXX instead to mean "C++ compiler" --- Yes, users should be able to specifically override the C and C++ compilers used. In practice, users can work around this clumsily by creating a temp directory with symlinks for gcc, g++, etc... and setting ALT_COMPILER_PATH to that. --- I am in favor of the fundamental change to a "configure + make" model, instead of configury stuff being done in the Makefiles as is the current practice. Martin
