diff -r 3a531d40ad93 -r e7e9e08147fc make/linux/makefiles/vm.make
--- a/make/linux/makefiles/vm.make	Thu Feb 14 14:33:35 2013 -0500
+++ b/make/linux/makefiles/vm.make	Thu Feb 14 12:36:07 2013 -0800
@@ -100,7 +100,13 @@
 # This is VERY important! The version define must only be supplied to vm_version.o
 # If not, ccache will not re-use the cache at all, since the version string might contain
 # a time and date. 
-vm_version.o: CXXFLAGS += ${JRE_VERSION}
+CXXFLAGS/vm_version.o += ${JRE_VERSION}
+
+CXXFLAGS/BYFILE = $(CXXFLAGS/$@)
+
+# File specific flags
+CXXFLAGS += $(CXXFLAGS/BYFILE)
+
 
 ifndef JAVASE_EMBEDDED 
 ifneq (${ARCH},arm)