--- a/make/linux/makefiles/vm.make	Fri Jan 22 12:48:57 2016 -1000
+++ b/make/linux/makefiles/vm.make	Thu Jan 07 17:28:46 2016 +0100
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 #
-# Copyright (c) 1999, 2013, Oracle and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved.
+# Copyright (c) 1999, 2015, Oracle and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved.
 # DO NOT ALTER OR REMOVE COPYRIGHT NOTICES OR THIS FILE HEADER.
 #
 # This code is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it
@@ -45,8 +45,9 @@
 ifeq ($(findstring true, $(JVM_VARIANT_ZERO) $(JVM_VARIANT_ZEROSHARK)), true)
   include $(MAKEFILES_DIR)/zeroshark.make
 else
-  include $(MAKEFILES_DIR)/$(BUILDARCH).make
-  -include $(HS_ALT_MAKE)/$(Platform_os_family)/makefiles/$(BUILDARCH).make
+  BUILDARCH_MAKE = $(MAKEFILES_DIR)/$(BUILDARCH).make
+  ALT_BUILDARCH_MAKE = $(HS_ALT_MAKE)/$(Platform_os_family)/makefiles/$(BUILDARCH).make
+  include $(if $(wildcard $(ALT_BUILDARCH_MAKE)),$(ALT_BUILDARCH_MAKE),$(BUILDARCH_MAKE))
 endif
 
 # set VPATH so make knows where to look for source files
@@ -257,8 +258,14 @@
 	rm -f $@
 	cat $^ > $@
 
+VMDEF_PAT  = ^_ZTV
+VMDEF_PAT := ^gHotSpotVM|$(VMDEF_PAT)
+VMDEF_PAT := ^UseSharedSpaces$$|$(VMDEF_PAT)
+VMDEF_PAT := ^_ZN9Arguments17SharedArchivePathE$$|$(VMDEF_PAT)
+
 vm.def: $(Res_Files) $(Obj_Files)
-	sh $(GAMMADIR)/make/linux/makefiles/build_vm_def.sh *.o > $@
+	$(QUIETLY) $(NM) --defined-only $(Obj_Files) | sort -k3 -u | \
+	awk '$$3 ~ /$(VMDEF_PAT)/ { print "\t" $$3 ";" }' > $@
 
 mapfile_ext:
 	rm -f $@