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

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