Reviewed-by: kvn, neliasso, ctornqvi

Summary: remove JPRT debug builds, remove -DDEBUG -DFASTDEBUG and use ASSERT instead in sources
Reviewed-by: dholmes, kvn, coleenp

Summary: Fixed incremental build makefiles generated by buildtree.make. Consolidated unix build.sh.
Reviewed-by: twisti

Reviewed-by: kvn, jcoomes

Summary: Phase 1 is removing '_g' support from the Makefiles.
Reviewed-by: dcubed, sspitsyn, coleenp, tbell
Contributed-by: ron.durbin@oracle.com

Summary: Change makefiles so that targets and parameters can be overridden by alternate makefiles.
Reviewed-by: dholmes, coleenp

Summary: Don't use HS_DTRACE_PROBE_CDECL_N and HS_DTRACE_PROBE_N directly.
Reviewed-by: coleenp, kamg, dholmes, sspitsyn
Contributed-by: NMark Wielaard <mjw@redhat.com>

Summary: Add support for ENABLE_FULL_DEBUG_SYMBOLS and ZIP_DEBUGINFO_FILES build flags. Add support for .diz files.
Reviewed-by: dholmes, ohair, sspitsyn

Reviewed-by: dholmes, ohair

Reviewed-by: dholmes, ohrstrom, ohair, jcoomes

Summary: Fix gamma launcher on Mac OS X and reconcile test_gamma script on Unix platforms
Reviewed-by: dcubed, ohair, jcoomes, dholmes, ksrini
Contributed-by: james.melvin@oracle.com

Summary: Moved precompiled.hpp to src/share/vm/precompiled
Reviewed-by: coleenp, dholmes
Contributed-by: Nrbackman <rickard.backman@oracle.com>

Summary: Add support for .debuginfo files for HSX libraries.
Reviewed-by: poonam, dholmes, never

Summary: Add support for distribution-specific error reporting
Reviewed-by: coleenp, phh, jcoomes, ohair

Reviewed-by: dholmes, bdelsart

Summary: Updates to Visual Studio project creation and development launcher
Reviewed-by: stefank, coleenp

Reviewed-by: jcoomes, dholmes, andrew, kvn

Summary: Replaced MakeDeps and the includeDB files with more standardized solutions.
Reviewed-by: coleenp, kvn, kamg

Summary: A collection of portability improvements including shared code support for PPC, ARM platforms, software floating point, cross compilation support and improvements in error crash detail.
Reviewed-by: phh, never, coleenp, dholmes

Summary: Change all the Sun copyrights to Oracle copyright
Reviewed-by: ohair

Reviewed-by: never
Contributed-by: gbenson@redhat.com

Reviewed-by: pbk

Reviewed-by: kvn

Summary: Update copyright year for files that have been modified in 2008
Reviewed-by: ohair, tbell

Summary: Moved makefiles out of build and build/closed into make/
Reviewed-by: kvn, ohair

Summary: (for Serguei) Allow for Linux builds with Sun Studio Linux compilers
Reviewed-by: sspitsyn, ohair