WIP: Hurd porting

[zamaudio]

This is not ready yet, but I wanted to send it to you so we can discuss the changes.

[gnu-andrew]

I've just skimmed through so far but a few things stand out:

• There is a mix here of changes for Hurd and hacks for bootstrapping, so we really need to separate those out. Of the latter, while there may be a few that would make sense to fix upstream, most seem to be temporary fixes for a bootstrap environment that you don't want in a final rebuild with itself. What is ../jdk6/build/linux-x86/langtools/dist/bootstrap? It doesn't seem like an OpenJDK 6 build if you are having to make some of these changes like changing the bootstrap JDK version. I would very strongly suggest using https://github.com/icedtea-git/icedtea/tree/2.6 to build rather than reinventing a lot of those bootstrapping changes here. This gives you a regular configure environment to work with, which OpenJDK gained with version 8. It also does a bootstrap run, where it applies some bootstrapping patches on the first run, and then rebuilds with the just built JDK on a clean tree. You should be able to use --with-openjdk-src-dir to build with an existing OpenJDK source tree rather than the tarballs it tries to download. I would also recommend trying first with the same build tools in a GNU/Linux environment rather than trying to get your head around both building OpenJDK and porting to a new OS in one step. On GNU/Linux, you should be able to build this tree with OpenJDK 6 or 7 without any mods, and with a Classpath-based solution like gcj using the IcedTea tree I just mentioned. Getting to that stage should make the Hurd stage a lot easier. Also, the fact that you're turning off CORBA, JAXP & JAXWS in your script suggests you won't get a complete JDK that can rebuild itself as it stands.
• The Hurd changes in the HotSpot tree should start with their own copies and modify them, rather than altering the Linux ones. The Linux code is very stable and we don't really want to alter it for a port to another OS. This is the approach used by BSD, Solaris and AIX, all of which share a lot of the same code but maintain their own copies. It's not a goal to make the Linux files portable; that's why they are Linux files :)
• Is the Hurd really identified as FreeBSD kernel? Would such changes also apply to a FreeBSD distribution?

[zamaudio]

Thanks for reviewing this. There are a myriad of different changes here, yes. I have changed my approach to using icedtea7 repo as the jdk source and only minimal changes are required to icedtea repo to make it compile. The portability changes were for GNU/kFreeBSD (basically a gnu operating system with BSD kernel), and GNU/Hurd. I copied these changes from a previous attempt by Jeremie Koenig, and extended them to complete the port. I may need to refactor everything so the Hurd port is in separate files, but hiding the Hurd changes in the Linux codepaths behind __GNU__ defines would be easier, especially since its almost identical code and __GNU__ is never defined on Linux systems.