Need reviewers. (Omair, you will want to verify this works for IcedTea). Some background: this changeset: http://hg.openjdk.java.net/jdk7/jdk7/rev/47f6b7db1882 Created some issues for people setting ALT_OUTPUTDIR to a vanilla path like /tmp/foobar. The expectation was that a debug build would show up in /tmp/foobar-debug, but it was showing up in /tmp/OS-ARCH-debug. The original changeset was mostly dealing with a Windows issue where you cannot just append characters to an existing path and expect that path to be valid, so a technique of doing a /../ was used.
This fix tries to make it a bit more obvious what is going on, although I have to admit it's a confusing situation regardless. 7043700: Regression for IcedTea builds http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~ohair/openjdk7/jdk7-build-outdebug-7043700/webrev/ -kto
