Summary: Update copyright year to 2012 for relevant files
Reviewed-by: dholmes, coleenp

Summary: Cleaned up make variables for compilers and linker to consistently use CXX for C++ compiler, CC for C compiler and LD for linker.
Reviewed-by: dholmes, ohrstrom

Reviewed-by: kvn, twisti, jrose
Contributed-by: NKurt Miller &lt;kurt@intricatesoftware.com&gt;, Greg Lewis &lt;glewis@eyesbeyond.com&gt;, Jung-uk Kim &lt;jkim@freebsd.org&gt;, Christos Zoulas &lt;christos@zoulas.com&gt;, Landon Fuller &lt;landonf@plausible.coop&gt;, The FreeBSD Foundation &lt;board@freebsdfoundation.org&gt;, Michael Franz &lt;mvfranz@gmail.com&gt;, Roger Hoover &lt;rhoover@apple.com&gt;, Alexander Strange <astrange@apple.com>

Summary: Enables cross building of a c2 VM. Support masking of shift counts when the processor architecture mandates it.
Reviewed-by: kvn, never

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

Reviewed-by: dholmes, bdelsart

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

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

Summary: The build fails if the bootstrap JDK defaults to <1.5
Reviewed-by: jcoomes

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

Summary: import the absolute output directory when launching sub make process and avoid including defs.make in rules.make
Reviewed-by: kamg, kvn

Summary: Remove the preferred base address built with libjvm.so and unified the PIC approach on Solaris & Linux.
Reviewed-by: never, kamg
Contributed-by: xiaobin.lu@sun.com

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