SPONSOR_LOCATION has been removed from
make/common/Defs.gmk
as a part of a fix for
CR 7118995 (stop building offline-s windows install bundle)

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The var is used to generate the URI to sponsor binaries in installer and AU xml files. These files are generally staged and updated by Mark for release, however it's a good idea to keep the SPONSOR_LOCATION var around.

You would never see an issue with this in a test build, unless you actually enabled and deployed a sponsor.

The concern is N/A for JDK7 because the framework used to deploy sponsors was completely revamped.

-Paul
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