John Coomes said the following on 05/04/11 02:37:
David Holmes (david.hol...@oracle.com) wrote:
I've just made the change as John suggested and to be honest I don't know why I didn't think of that myself. I do see your point though, by setting it the same the build will always use the ALT_SRC in the OpenJDK case - but this will be fine because it is the same as COMMON_SRC. This is only used to generate the Makefiles during the buildtree phase so I don't think it is really a concern either way.

FWIW, I prefer the change you've made, but don't feel that strongly
about it.

To be honest I'm doubting the whole rationale for this change as it means that an OPENJDK build will never use the alt-src mechanism, when according to the comments alt-src was also intended to be used by others for introducing alternative code into their builds/distributions. In those cases you may well want both alt-src and OPENJDK (given that OPENJDK could be being set at the top-level JDK makefile).

IMHO, better if an OPENJDK build doesn't use alt-src, at least by
default.  And I suspect you can override HS_ALT_SRC_REL from the gmake
command line, even when OPENJDK==true (haven't tried it, though).

No. Unless you use -e a variable's value from the environment will be overridden by an explicit assignment in the Makefile. Which means that the better fix here is:

+ 36 ifndef HS_ALT_SRC_REL
  37   ifneq ($(OPENJDK),true)
38 # This needs to be changed to a more generic location, but we keep it as this
  39     # for now for compatibility
  40
  41     HS_ALT_SRC_REL=src/closed
  42   else
  43     HS_ALT_SRC_REL=$(HS_COMMON_SRC_REL)
  44   endif
+ 45 endif

David

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