6681796: hotspot build failure on gcc 4.2.x (ubuntu 8.04) w/ openjdk 6
Summary: Fixed the cast from char* to const char* and tried to use const char* as much as possible
Reviewed-by: never, kamg
Contributed-by: xiaobin.lu@sun.com
6647068: libjvm.so is not built PIC
Summary: Remove the preferred base address built with libjvm.so and unified the PIC approach on Solaris & Linux.
Reviewed-by: never, kamg
Contributed-by: xiaobin.lu@sun.com