Summary: build powerpc with -fPIC
Reviewed-by: mikael, vladidan, roland
Contributed-by: dean.long@oracle.com

Summary: Simple change to enable proper builds of arm target
Reviewed-by: ohair, dholmes

Reviewed-by: jcoomes

Summary: Add -fpch-deps flag to gcc builds
Reviewed-by: kamg, coleenp
Contributed-by: volker.simonis@gmail.com

Reviewed-by: jcoomes

Reviewed-by: jcoomes

Summary: Run SPECjbb in headless mode and enable SPECjbb runs on OSX
Reviewed-by: dcubed, dholmes

Reviewed-by: jcoomes

Summary: Work around 'gobjcopy' failure on Solaris X64 by adding a temporary tool that removes the SHF_ALLOC flag from "empty" section headers.
Reviewed-by: sspitsyn, acorn

Reviewed-by: jcoomes, kvn

Reviewed-by: jcoomes

Summary: Always disable ZIP_DEBUGINFO_FILES on Windows.
Reviewed-by: acorn

Summary: Disable ZIP_DEBUGINFO_FILES by default on Windows.
Reviewed-by: acorn

Summary: Work around 'gobjcopy --add-gnu-debuglink' failure by adding a temporary tool that adds the '.gnu_debuglink' section and nothing more.
Reviewed-by: sspitsyn, acorn

Reviewed-by: jcoomes

Summary: Simple change to the SE-Embedded build rules that should not affect any other OpenJDK users.
Reviewed-by: kvn, dholmes

Reviewed-by: sspitsyn, acorn

Reviewed-by: jcoomes

Summary: Disable FDS by default on Solaris; disable ZIP_DEBUGINFO_FILES by default on Windows.
Reviewed-by: acorn, sspitsyn

Reviewed-by: jcoomes

Reviewed-by: jcoomes

Summary: Build option FULL_DEBUG_SYMBOLS=0 only affects product builds.
Reviewed-by: ohair, jmelvin, sspitsyn

Reviewed-by: jcoomes

Reviewed-by: johnc

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: jcoomes

Reviewed-by: brutisso, sla, mgerdin

Reviewed-by: brutisso

Reviewed-by: jcoomes

Reviewed-by: ohair

Reviewed-by: ohair, never

Reviewed-by: jcoomes

Reviewed-by: jcoomes

Summary: Add an internal testing API to HotSpot to enable more targeted testing of vm functionality
Reviewed-by: phh, dholmes

Reviewed-by: dholmes, ohrstrom, ohair, jcoomes

Reviewed-by: jcoomes

Summary: pass assembler switches for PPC
Reviewed-by: dholmes

Summary: Change default release value to jdk8 (but overrideable)
Reviewed-by: phh, jcoomes, dholmes, ohair

Reviewed-by: rbackman, jrose, dholmes