In the jdk repository then src/solaris has all the Solaris and Linux
code. Most of it is used for both platforms with a small number of files
specific to one or the other. I'm sure this has come up before (probably
many times) but I'd like to bring it up again.
One of motives for bringing this up now is the Mac OS X port is coming.
It adds/changes code in src/solaris and also adds a lot of code to a new
tree src/macosx. Another motivation is patches from IBM folks which are
really just changes to workaround the fact that we've got code for
several platforms in the same directory. As I look through src/solaris
now it is clear that we have taken several approaches to this. In some
cases we've got Solaris* files, in other cases we rename files during
the build.
The purpose of this mail is just to probe and see if anyone has thought
about this problem recently. I'm not suggesting anything specific except
to see whether it's worth thinking about how we might change this in the
future. I've no doubt that there isn't a perfect solution to this and
clearly any changes will be disruptive (but there's no harm discussing
possible options).
-Alan.
- jdk/src/solaris - time to re-visit it? Alan Bateman
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