troubles building 64-bit VM on a mac

[David Green]

FYI, I've discovered that Eclipse is failing to load due to differences in
System.mapLibraryName().  This appears to be more of an SWT issue than a JDK
problem. See https://bugs.eclipse.org/276564 if you're interested in the
details.
David

On Thu, May 14, 2009 at 10:25 PM, David Green <dgreen99 at gmail.com> wrote:

> Landon,
>
> That's fantastic!  I've tested the 64-bit build here (on a mac) and it
> works beautifully.
> BTW, from my blog post Eclipse 3.5 (Galileo) on Java 7<http://greensopinion.blogspot.com/2009/05/eclipse-35-galileo-on-jdk-7.html> you
> can see that it's quite difficult to launch Eclipse using JDK 7.  Are there
> some known issues that need dealing with?  If there's work to be done
> getting Eclipse launching smoothly on JDK 7 I'd like to help.  Or perhaps
> there are some patches that I'm not aware of?  Any hints would be
> appreciated.
>
> Best regards,
>
> David
>
>
> On Thu, May 14, 2009 at 9:08 PM, Landon Fuller <landonf at plausiblelabs.com>wrote:
>
>>
>> On May 14, 2009, at 8:58 AM, David Green wrote:
>>
>>  I've managed to build a 32-bit jdk7 on my mac.  When attempting to build
>>> 64-bit I run into the following error message:
>>>
>> [snip]
>>
>>> The only thing that I changed is between builds is ARCH_DATA_MODEL=64
>>>
>>
>> Darwin x86's uname -m returns i386 on both 32-bit/64-bit systems, which
>> causes some issues with using ARCH_DATA_MODEL=64. Attached are patches that:
>>
>> - Enable overriding the default i586/i386 corba, jdk, and hotspot ARCH
>> settings via ARCH_DATA_MODEL=64
>> - Set -m32 and -m64 for i386/amd64 builds (should fix the Snow Leopard
>> issue Weijun reported)
>> - Removes i586/i686 detection cases in Hotspot's bsd/defs.make that are
>> not necessary on NetBSD, FreeBSD, or OpenBSD (hw.machine always returns
>> 'i386')
>>
>> With the patches, 32-bit and 64-bit jdk7 builds complete successfully on
>> my Mac, using soylatte i386/amd64. Unless there are any objections, I'll go
>> ahead and commit after testing a FreeBSD build.
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Landon
>>
>>
>
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