Power PC Build

[Michael Franz]

On Sun, Dec 28, 2008 at 1:29 PM, Greg Lewis <glewis at eyesbeyond.com> wrote:

> G'day Eric,
>
> On Sat, Dec 27, 2008 at 11:12:33PM -0800, Eric Richardson wrote:
> > I was looking into OpenJDK and saw the bsd-port and zero assembly project
> > and thought It might be possible build jdk6 on PowerPC.  After looking at
> > the bsd-port list I started working on setting up my environment. I have
> a
> > G5 based Mac. Here is what I have done so far.
>
> Depending on what you want in terms of a JDK, it might be easier to try
> and port the zero assembler work to the current OpenJDK BSD port.  I'd
> like to do this, but I've not seen zero assembler separated out from the
> Iced Tea sources.  I believe you need libffi working to get it to work,
> but there are ports for this in MacPorts and in at least the FreeBSD
> ports system (I expect it to be in {Net,Open}BSD as well).
>
> CC'ing Gary Benson, the zero assembler author.  Gary, would it be
> possible to get the zero assembler support as a patch against the
> current OpenJDK 7 sources or could you point out the relevant parts
> of the Iced Tea source?
>

There is a zero forest here http://hg.openjdk.java.net/ .  Is this the
official source?  Or is it mostly maintained within the IcedTea project?

Michael
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