diff --git a/make/BuildNashorn.gmk b/make/BuildNashorn.gmk
deleted file mode 100644
index c9e31433cf2..00000000000
--- a/make/BuildNashorn.gmk
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,115 +0,0 @@
-#
-# Copyright (c) 2010, 2017, 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
-# under the terms of the GNU General Public License version 2 only, as
-# published by the Free Software Foundation.  Oracle designates this
-# particular file as subject to the "Classpath" exception as provided
-# by Oracle in the LICENSE file that accompanied this code.
-#
-# This code is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT
-# ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or
-# FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the GNU General Public License
-# version 2 for more details (a copy is included in the LICENSE file that
-# accompanied this code).
-#
-# You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License version
-# 2 along with this work; if not, write to the Free Software Foundation,
-# Inc., 51 Franklin St, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA 02110-1301 USA.
-#
-# Please contact Oracle, 500 Oracle Parkway, Redwood Shores, CA 94065 USA
-# or visit www.oracle.com if you need additional information or have any
-# questions.
-#
-
-# This must be the first rule
-default: all
-
-include $(SPEC)
-include MakeBase.gmk
-include JarArchive.gmk
-include JavaCompilation.gmk
-include SetupJavaCompilers.gmk
-include TextFileProcessing.gmk
-include Modules.gmk
-
-JDK_CLASSES := $(call PathList, $(strip $(addprefix $(JDK_OUTPUTDIR)/modules/, \
-      java.base java.logging java.scripting jdk.dynalink)))
-
-# Need to use source and target 8 for nasgen to work.
-$(eval $(call SetupJavaCompiler, GENERATE_NEWBYTECODE_DEBUG, \
-    JVM := $(JAVA_JAVAC), \
-    JAVAC := $(NEW_JAVAC), \
-    FLAGS := -g -source 10 -target 10 --upgrade-module-path "$(JDK_OUTPUTDIR)/modules/" \
-         --system none --module-source-path $(call GetModuleSrcPath), \
-    SERVER_DIR := $(SJAVAC_SERVER_DIR), \
-    SERVER_JVM := $(SJAVAC_SERVER_JAVA)))
-
-# Build nashorn into intermediate directory
-# Name the compilation setup the same as the module, as is done in the global
-# CompileJavaModules.gmk, to make dependency checking with other modules work
-# seamlessly.
-$(eval $(call SetupJavaCompilation, jdk.scripting.nashorn, \
-    SETUP := GENERATE_NEWBYTECODE_DEBUG, \
-    MODULE := jdk.scripting.nashorn, \
-    SRC := $(TOPDIR)/src/jdk.scripting.nashorn/share/classes, \
-    COPY := .properties .js, \
-    BIN := $(SUPPORT_OUTPUTDIR)/special_classes, \
-    CREATE_API_DIGEST := true, \
-))
-
-# Declare dependencies between java compilations of different modules.
-# Since the other modules are declared in different invocations of this file,
-# use the macro to find the correct target file to depend on.
-# Only the javac compilation actually depends on other modules so limit
-# dependency declaration to that by using the *_COMPILE_TARGET variable.
-$(jdk.scripting.nashorn_COMPILE_TARGET): $(foreach d, $(call FindDepsForModule, jdk.scripting.nashorn), \
-    $(call SetupJavaCompilationApiTarget, $d, \
-        $(if $($d_BIN), $($d_BIN), $(JDK_OUTPUTDIR)/modules/$d)))
-
-NASGEN_SRC := $(TOPDIR)/make/nashorn/buildtools/nasgen/src
-ASM_SRC := $(TOPDIR)/src/java.base/share/classes/jdk/internal/org/objectweb/asm
-
-# Build nasgen
-$(eval $(call SetupJavaCompilation, BUILD_NASGEN, \
-    SETUP := GENERATE_OLDBYTECODE, \
-    SRC := $(NASGEN_SRC) $(ASM_SRC), \
-    BIN := $(BUILDTOOLS_OUTPUTDIR)/nasgen_classes))
-
-NASHORN_CLASSES_DIR := $(JDK_OUTPUTDIR)/modules/jdk.scripting.nashorn
-NASGEN_RUN_FILE := $(NASHORN_CLASSES_DIR)/_the.nasgen.run
-
-NASGEN_OPTIONS := \
-    -cp $(BUILDTOOLS_OUTPUTDIR)/nasgen_classes \
-    --patch-module java.base=$(BUILDTOOLS_OUTPUTDIR)/nasgen_classes \
-    --add-exports java.base/jdk.internal.org.objectweb.asm=ALL-UNNAMED \
-    --add-exports java.base/jdk.internal.org.objectweb.asm.util=ALL-UNNAMED \
-    #
-
-# Copy classes to final classes dir and run nasgen to modify classes in jdk.nashorn.internal.objects package
-$(NASGEN_RUN_FILE): $(BUILD_NASGEN) $(jdk.scripting.nashorn)
-	$(ECHO) Running nasgen
-	$(MKDIR) -p $(@D)
-	$(RM) -rf $(@D)/jdk $(@D)/netscape
-	$(CP) -R -p $(SUPPORT_OUTPUTDIR)/special_classes/jdk.scripting.nashorn/* $(@D)/
-	$(JAVA_SMALL) $(NASGEN_OPTIONS) \
-	    jdk.nashorn.internal.tools.nasgen.Main $(@D) jdk.nashorn.internal.objects $(@D)
-	$(TOUCH) $@
-
-# Version file needs to be processed with version numbers
-$(eval $(call SetupTextFileProcessing, BUILD_VERSION_FILE, \
-  SOURCE_FILES := $(TOPDIR)/src/jdk.scripting.nashorn/share/classes/jdk/nashorn/internal/runtime/resources/version.properties.template, \
-  OUTPUT_FILE := $(JDK_OUTPUTDIR)/modules/jdk.scripting.nashorn/jdk/nashorn/internal/runtime/resources/version.properties, \
-  REPLACEMENTS := \
-      @@VERSION_STRING@@ => $(VERSION_STRING) ; \
-      @@VERSION_SHORT@@ => $(VERSION_SHORT) , \
-))
-
-# Version processing needs to happen after nasgen run since nasgen run deletes it
-$(BUILD_VERSION_FILE): $(NASGEN_RUN_FILE)
-
-compile: $(NASGEN_RUN_FILE) $(BUILD_VERSION_FILE)
-all: compile
-
-.PHONY: compile all
diff --git a/make/CompileJavaModules.gmk b/make/CompileJavaModules.gmk
index 72c7391d45d..46021495859 100644
--- a/make/CompileJavaModules.gmk
+++ b/make/CompileJavaModules.gmk
@@ -341,6 +341,10 @@ jdk.jartool_ADD_JAVAC_FLAGS += -XDstringConcat=inline
 
 ################################################################################
 
+jdk.scripting.nashorn_COPY := .properties .js
+
+################################################################################
+
 jdk.scripting.nashorn.shell_COPY += .js .properties
 
 ################################################################################
@@ -642,6 +646,12 @@ endif
 
 ################################################################################
 
+ifeq ($(MODULE), jdk.scripting.nashorn)
+  include CompileJavaModulesNashorn.gmk
+endif
+
+################################################################################
+
 $(eval $(call IncludeCustomExtension, CompileJavaModules-post.gmk))
 
 ################################################################################
diff --git a/make/CompileJavaModulesNashorn.gmk b/make/CompileJavaModulesNashorn.gmk
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..6729694ba5c
--- /dev/null
+++ b/make/CompileJavaModulesNashorn.gmk
@@ -0,0 +1,52 @@
+#
+# Copyright (c) 2010, 2018, 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
+# under the terms of the GNU General Public License version 2 only, as
+# published by the Free Software Foundation.  Oracle designates this
+# particular file as subject to the "Classpath" exception as provided
+# by Oracle in the LICENSE file that accompanied this code.
+#
+# This code is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT
+# ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or
+# FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the GNU General Public License
+# version 2 for more details (a copy is included in the LICENSE file that
+# accompanied this code).
+#
+# You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License version
+# 2 along with this work; if not, write to the Free Software Foundation,
+# Inc., 51 Franklin St, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA 02110-1301 USA.
+#
+# Please contact Oracle, 500 Oracle Parkway, Redwood Shores, CA 94065 USA
+# or visit www.oracle.com if you need additional information or have any
+# questions.
+#
+
+NASGEN_SRC := $(TOPDIR)/make/nashorn/buildtools/nasgen/src
+ASM_SRC := $(TOPDIR)/src/java.base/share/classes/jdk/internal/org/objectweb/asm
+
+# Build nasgen
+$(eval $(call SetupJavaCompilation, BUILD_NASGEN, \
+    SETUP := GENERATE_OLDBYTECODE, \
+    SRC := $(NASGEN_SRC) $(ASM_SRC), \
+    BIN := $(BUILDTOOLS_OUTPUTDIR)/nasgen_classes, \
+))
+
+NASHORN_CLASSES_DIR := $(JDK_OUTPUTDIR)/modules/$(MODULE)
+NASGEN_RUN_FILE := $(NASHORN_CLASSES_DIR)/_the.nasgen.run
+
+NASGEN_OPTIONS := \
+    -cp $(BUILDTOOLS_OUTPUTDIR)/nasgen_classes \
+    --patch-module java.base=$(BUILDTOOLS_OUTPUTDIR)/nasgen_classes \
+    --add-exports java.base/jdk.internal.org.objectweb.asm=ALL-UNNAMED \
+    --add-exports java.base/jdk.internal.org.objectweb.asm.util=ALL-UNNAMED \
+    #
+
+# Run nasgen to modify classes in jdk.nashorn.internal.objects package
+$(NASGEN_RUN_FILE): $(BUILD_NASGEN) $($(MODULE))
+	$(ECHO) Running nasgen
+	$(JAVA_SMALL) $(NASGEN_OPTIONS) \
+	    jdk.nashorn.internal.tools.nasgen.Main $(@D) \
+	    jdk.nashorn.internal.objects $(@D)
+	$(TOUCH) $@
diff --git a/make/Main.gmk b/make/Main.gmk
index 7bd0dc62e62..c916b01a0fc 100644
--- a/make/Main.gmk
+++ b/make/Main.gmk
@@ -186,7 +186,7 @@ $(foreach m, $(IMPORT_COPY_MODULES), $(eval $(call DeclareImportCopyRecipe,$m)))
 ALL_TARGETS += $(ALL_COPY_TARGETS)
 
 ################################################################################
-# Targets for compiling all java modules. Nashorn is treated separately.
+# Targets for compiling all java modules.
 JAVA_MODULES := $(ALL_MODULES)
 JAVA_TARGETS := $(addsuffix -java, $(JAVA_MODULES))
 
@@ -196,14 +196,7 @@ define DeclareCompileJavaRecipe
 	    -f CompileJavaModules.gmk MODULE=$1)
 endef
 
-$(foreach m, $(filter-out jdk.scripting.nashorn, $(JAVA_MODULES)), \
-    $(eval $(call DeclareCompileJavaRecipe,$m)))
-
-# Build nashorn. Needs to be compiled separately from the rest of the modules
-# due to nasgen.
-jdk.scripting.nashorn-java:
-	+($(CD) $(TOPDIR)/make && $(MAKE) $(MAKE_ARGS) \
-	    -f BuildNashorn.gmk compile)
+$(foreach m, $(JAVA_MODULES), $(eval $(call DeclareCompileJavaRecipe,$m)))
 
 ALL_TARGETS += $(JAVA_TARGETS)
 
diff --git a/make/gensrc/Gensrc-jdk.scripting.nashorn.gmk b/make/gensrc/Gensrc-jdk.scripting.nashorn.gmk
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..9dec093eede
--- /dev/null
+++ b/make/gensrc/Gensrc-jdk.scripting.nashorn.gmk
@@ -0,0 +1,51 @@
+#
+# Copyright (c) 2018, 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
+# under the terms of the GNU General Public License version 2 only, as
+# published by the Free Software Foundation.  Oracle designates this
+# particular file as subject to the "Classpath" exception as provided
+# by Oracle in the LICENSE file that accompanied this code.
+#
+# This code is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT
+# ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or
+# FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the GNU General Public License
+# version 2 for more details (a copy is included in the LICENSE file that
+# accompanied this code).
+#
+# You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License version
+# 2 along with this work; if not, write to the Free Software Foundation,
+# Inc., 51 Franklin St, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA 02110-1301 USA.
+#
+# Please contact Oracle, 500 Oracle Parkway, Redwood Shores, CA 94065 USA
+# or visit www.oracle.com if you need additional information or have any
+# questions.
+#
+
+default: all
+
+include $(SPEC)
+include MakeBase.gmk
+include TextFileProcessing.gmk
+
+################################################################################
+
+# Version file needs to be processed with version numbers
+VERSION_FILE := jdk/nashorn/internal/runtime/resources/version.properties
+
+$(eval $(call SetupTextFileProcessing, BUILD_VERSION_FILE, \
+    SOURCE_FILES := $(TOPDIR)/src/$(MODULE)/share/classes/$(VERSION_FILE).template, \
+    OUTPUT_FILE := $(SUPPORT_OUTPUTDIR)/gensrc/$(MODULE)/$(VERSION_FILE), \
+    REPLACEMENTS := \
+        @@VERSION_STRING@@ => $(VERSION_STRING) ; \
+        @@VERSION_SHORT@@ => $(VERSION_SHORT) , \
+))
+
+TARGETS += $(NASGEN_RUN_FILE) $(BUILD_VERSION_FILE)
+
+################################################################################
+
+all: $(TARGETS)
+
+.PHONY: all default