This makefile fix is already in openjdk 6 and a slightly different version is in JDK 8. As discussed in review mail [1], a tweak may be made to the JDK 8 fix that already went in a few months back. It's been reviewed by valerie.peng at oracle.com
Bug report : http://bugs.sun.com/bugdatabase/view_bug.do?bug_id=7058133 webrev : http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~coffeys/webrev.7058133.jdk7u/[1] http://mail.openjdk.java.net/pipermail/core-libs-dev/2012-January/008943.html
regards, Sean.
