Reviewed-by: jwilhelm

Reviewed-by: tbell, erikj

8073139: PPC64: User-visible arch directory and os.arch value on ppc64le cause issues with Java tooling
Reviewed-by: erikj, goetz, dholmes

Summary: Generate debug info for assembler files as needed.
Reviewed-by: erikj

Reviewed-by: erikj

Reviewed-by: erikj

Reviewed-by: erikj

Reviewed-by: erikj

Reviewed-by: tbell

Summary: Keep the ccache work-around so as to not break Oracle internal JDK 8 builds.
Reviewed-by: erikj, kevinw

Reviewed-by: dholmes, erikj

Reviewed-by: erikj, herrick

Reviewed-by: dholmes, erikj

Reviewed-by: asemenyuk, jqzuo

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: dcubed, mikael

Reviewed-by: ihse, tbell

Reviewed-by: erikj, collins

Reviewed-by: erikj, collins

Reviewed-by: ihse, tbell

Reviewed-by: tbell

Reviewed-by: alanb

Reviewed-by: simonis, tbell, erikj

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

Reviewed-by: ihse, twisti

Reviewed-by: erikj

Reviewed-by: tbell, ihse

Reviewed-by: ihse, tbell

Reviewed-by: tbell, ihse

Summary: Need to generated autoconf changes
Reviewed-by: paulk

Reviewed-by: coffeys

Reviewed-by: katleman

Reviewed-by: katleman

Reviewed-by: katleman

8031709: Configure --with-jvm-variants=client, server, x produces default outputdir containing comma
Reviewed-by: tbell

Reviewed-by: katleman

Reviewed-by: ihse, erikj, simonis
Contributed-by: asmundak@google.com

Reviewed-by: katleman

Reviewed-by: katleman

8033921: Build fails if --with-alsa option is used due to incorrect ALSA link parameter in autoconf script.
Reviewed-by: ihse, erikj
Contributed-by: NJessica Man <jessica.man@gs.com>