install locations for OpenJDK 7...

[Ray Kiddy]

After I moved (and added to) Landon's instructions for building  
OpenJDK 7 on Mac OS X 10.5 (http://wikis.sun.com/display/OpenJDK/Darwin9Build 
), I moved the "install this version as current" info to another page.  
Right now, this is at http://wikis.sun.com/display/OpenJDK/Switching+Java+Versions+on+Mac+OS+X 
.

Is there any interest in packaging the OpenJDK 7 binaries into a real  
Mac OS X-compatible location? One can put them somewhere under /usr  
and make sure that /usr/bin/java points to the right version and this  
is good for server-ish things, but there may be reasons to install the  
OpenJDK 7 binaries under /System/Library/Frameworks/JavaVM.framework/ 
Versions/. There is a whole other kind of directory structure under  
there. I believe that if we want to have regular Cocoa applications  
that use java to use the OpenJDK 7 VM, it would have to be installed  
in the JavaVM.framework....

Or do we care? Or has this been slated to be done at some future time?

Now that I got past my build issues, I looked at the info about  
running tests. I can see what might be needed to run jtreg. Ha ha.  
Yeah. Like anyone would want to sign up for that....

Perhaps there are bsdport-specific tools for invoking whatever tests  
can be run? Yes? No?

Well, anyway, now I have the JDK built. I can experiment with my  
server-based frameworks. But if there is any kind of path to assist  
testing on Mac OS X, I would be interested in hearing about it. And I  
would not be surprised if there is some info that can go to the wiki.

cheers - ray