Build progress on Mac OS X PowerPC

[Andrew John Hughes]

2009/11/17 Kurt Miller <kurt at intricatesoftware.com>:
> Hi Andrew,
>
> Andrew John Hughes wrote:
>> I'm currently trying to build the BSD tree on linux-amd64 and am confused by:
>>
>> http://hg.openjdk.java.net/bsd-port/bsd-port/jdk/diff/4fef42eb432c/make/common/internal/BinaryPlugs.gmk
>>
>> Why were these additions made?  They aren't in either tl or the icedtea forests.
>>
>> I spotted this because icedtea-copy-plugs.patch won't apply.  I may
>> just drop the copy-plugs patch altogether unless it's actually being
>> used; I think it may be dead.
>
> This was added to support building with binary plugs from when it
> was required to have them. It was left in so that people still
> building ALT_BINARY_PLUGS_PATH set would work. Enough time has
> passed so I'm ok with removing it now if other project members
> agree.
>
> Regards,
> -Kurt
>

Strangely, it's part of
http://hg.openjdk.java.net/bsd-port/bsd-port/jdk/rev/4fef42eb432c
which was added _after_ the binary plug dependency was removed.
-- 
Andrew :-)

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