Building Java 7 on OS X Snow Leopard

[John Rose]

On Oct 7, 2009, at 2:41 PM, Dave Cheney wrote:

> I find this works for me. Removing the CC / CXX references from the  
> make line causes the printf issues whilst compiling hotspot, so I  
> assume that, when specified, they are working as advertised.

That makes sense, from a make-ish point of view.  When the makefiles  
pass the explicit command line settings to each other everywhere, then  
command-line variable settings act like a stronger sort of environment  
variable.

I guess I like the command-line trick better, even though I don't  
fully trust the makefiles to share the command line settings all the  
way down.

BTW, the trick based on ALT_COMPILER_PATH depends on the code in these  
makefiles:
   jdk/make/common/shared/Defs-bsd.gmk
   jdk/make/common/shared/Compiler-gcc.gmk

Thanks,
-- John