6779412: VS2008 errors compiling jdk sources
Summary: Update Makefiles to tolerate newer Visual Studio releases and runtimes.
Reviewed-by: ohair

Summary: Update for files that have been modified starting July 2008
Reviewed-by: ohair, tbell

6466476: (tz) Introduction of tzdata2005r can introduce incompatility issues with some JDK1.1 3-letter TZ Ids
Reviewed-by: okutsu

Reviewed-by: iris, sherman, chegar

Reviewed-by: iris

Summary: provided error reporting interfaces to other java subsystems that the launcher uses.
Reviewed-by: darcy

Reviewed-by: mchung, iris

Reviewed-by: sherman

Summary: Make getIndex() and getByIndex() public. Required a name change in native code
Reviewed-by: alanb, chegar, michaelm

Reviewed-by: alanb

Summary: Needed BOOT_JAR_JFLAGS. Fixed PREVIOUS_RELEASE_IMAGE.
Reviewed-by: tbell

Reviewed-by: tbell

Reviewed-by: tbell

Summary: replace awk-sed based spp.sh with a java regex based pre-processor
Reviewed-by: alanb

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

Summary: Just the Makefile changes to fix a cygwin nawk BINMODE=w problem.
Reviewed-by: igor, tbell

Reviewed-by: tdv, campbell

Summary: SJIS0213 support
Reviewed-by: naoto

Summary: Making sure the right 'sort' utility is found.
Reviewed-by: tbell

Reviewed-by: alanb, iris

Summary: javaw does not show error window after manifest changes.
Reviewed-by: darcy

Summary: Changes to the way GNU make 3.81 deals with the env variable SHELL
Reviewed-by: xdono