--- a/common/autoconf/spec.gmk.in	Mon Mar 23 11:44:40 2015 -0700
+++ b/common/autoconf/spec.gmk.in	Thu Mar 26 16:17:30 2015 +0100
@@ -55,25 +55,12 @@
 # A self-referential reference to this file.
 SPEC:=@SPEC@
 
-# Specify where the spec file is.
-MAKE_ARGS="SPEC=$(SPEC)"
-
-MAKE:=@MAKE@
-
-# Pass along the verbosity and log level settings.
-ifeq (,$(findstring VERBOSE=,$(MAKE)))
-  MAKE:=$(MAKE) $(VERBOSE) VERBOSE="$(VERBOSE)" LOG_LEVEL="$(LOG_LEVEL)"
-endif
+# What make to use for main processing, after bootstrapping top-level Makefile.
+MAKE := @MAKE@
 
-# No implicit variables or rules!
-ifeq (,$(findstring -R,$(MAKE)))
-  MAKE:=$(MAKE) -R
-endif
-
-# Specify where the common include directory for makefiles is.
-ifeq (,$(findstring -I @TOPDIR@/make/common,$(MAKE)))
-  MAKE:=$(MAKE) -I @TOPDIR@/make/common
-endif
+# The default make arguments
+MAKE_ARGS = $(MAKE_LOG_FLAGS) -R -I $(TOPDIR)/make/common SPEC=$(SPEC) \
+    MAKE_LOG_FLAGS="$(MAKE_LOG_FLAGS)" LOG_LEVEL=$(LOG_LEVEL)
 
 OUTPUT_SYNC_SUPPORTED:=@OUTPUT_SYNC_SUPPORTED@
 OUTPUT_SYNC:=@OUTPUT_SYNC@
@@ -573,18 +560,6 @@
 XCODEBUILD=@XCODEBUILD@
 FIXPATH:=@FIXPATH@
 
-# Where the build output is stored for your convenience.
-BUILD_LOG:=@BUILD_LOG@
-BUILD_LOG_PREVIOUS:=@BUILD_LOG_PREVIOUS@
-# Disable the build log wrapper on sjavac+windows until
-# we have solved how to prevent the log wrapper to wait
-# for the background sjavac server process.
-ifeq (@ENABLE_SJAVAC@X@OPENJDK_BUILD_OS@,yesXwindows)
-  BUILD_LOG_WRAPPER:=
-else
-  BUILD_LOG_WRAPPER:=@BUILD_LOG_WRAPPER@
-endif
-
 # Build setup
 ENABLE_JFR=@ENABLE_JFR@
 ENABLE_INTREE_EC=@ENABLE_INTREE_EC@