Reviewed-by: erikj, ihse, ddehaven, billyh

Reviewed-by: simonis, erikj, ihse

Reviewed-by: erikj, ihse

Reviewed-by: ihse, erikj, tbell

Reviewed-by: ihse, erikj

Reviewed-by: ihse, henryjen, erikj

Reviewed-by: ihse, tbell, mduigou, erikj

Reviewed-by: dholmes, erikj

Summary: C++ standard needs to be explicitly set and some optimisations turned off to build on GCC 6
Reviewed-by: erikj, dholmes, kbarrett

Reviewed-by: ihse, tbell

Reviewed-by: alanb

Summary: Build system tweaks to allow building on OS X 10.9 and later
Reviewed-by: erikj

Reviewed-by: alanb, ihse, tbell

Summary: Revised build system and added platform specific headers for Mac OS X
Reviewed-by: ihse, erikj
Contributed-by: david.dehaven@oracle.com

Reviewed-by: erikj

Reviewed-by: tbell, simonis, erikj

8023611: Win32 and win64: Remove all the WARNINGS in JDK 8 builds for Windows 2008 and MSVS 2010 SP1
Reviewed-by: erikj

Reviewed-by: erikj

Reviewed-by: ihse

Reviewed-by: erikj, prr, ihse

Reviewed-by: alanb, chegar, tbell, smarks

Summary: Enable new build on Linux/PPC64
Reviewed-by: erikj

Reviewed-by: tbell

Reviewed-by: chegar, tbell, dxu

Reviewed-by: tbell

Reviewed-by: tbell

Reviewed-by: erikj

Reviewed-by: tbell

Reviewed-by: tbell

Reviewed-by: tbell

Reviewed-by: tbell

Reviewed-by: tbell

Summary: Respect user CC and CXX environment variables; use cl iff on windows
Reviewed-by: erikj

Reviewed-by: ohair, ddehaven

Reviewed-by: ohair

Summary: Allow configuration of minimal1 as a target VM along with client and server
Reviewed-by: ohair, erikj

Summary: Search all compiler names in dev-kit dir first.
Reviewed-by: tbell

Summary: Linking against server jvm first if available. Adding filters and exceptions for hotspot lib compare on solaris.
Reviewed-by: ohair, ohrstrom

Summary: Only linking against jvm variant specific dirs if they are expected to exist.
Reviewed-by: ohair

Summary: Only call BASIC_FIXUP_EXECUTABLE() if objcopy was found.
Reviewed-by: tbell
Contributed-by: erik.joelsson@oracle.com