tracking JDK7

[Lussier, Denis]

Perhaps we would have better luck trying to build a Universal binary on 10.4
Intel??

On Fri, Oct 22, 2010 at 2:42 PM, John Yeary <johnyeary at gmail.com> wrote:

> Tony,
>
> That has been my limit too. I am limited on time, and I update the
> documents on the builds as I have time, but two nights ago I tried to a
> build for PPC with the latest code and "BOOM". So I gave up for the evening
> and have not been back.
>
> I think the first thing we need is a consistent build script that will
> build without any general hassle. Setting up a build.sh to run without
> issues is key. I have found on PPC that it is really unreliable. On Intel
> x86/x64 it is OK.
>
> John
>
>
> On Fri, Oct 22, 2010 at 2:36 PM, Tony Piselli <tpisellijr at mac.com> wrote:
>
>> I've got a Dual processor G4 with lots of hard drive space that could be
>> used for PPC work for 10.5. It's been over a decade since I've done serious
>> c/c++ programming let alone dealt with Make files. A while ago I tried to do
>> a build but got frustrated and ran out of time to get back into it.
>> I may be able to help a couple of hours a week at most.
>>
>> Tony
>>
>> Sent from my iPad
>>
>> On Oct 22, 2010, at 1:27 PM, "Lussier, Denis" <denisl at openscg.com> wrote:
>>
>> I too have had great luck using the old Soylatte build of OpenJDK 6.  I
>> understand that this can nicely be used as a bootstrap build for OpenJDK7.
>>
>> What I'm wondering is if anyone is willing (and capable) of getting it so
>> that a miore current OpenJDK 6 can be built as a 32-bit Universal OSX binary
>> so that Apple can't continue to punish owners of (perfectly good) older Macs
>> by denying them access to JDK6.
>>
>> --Luss
>>
>> On Fri, Oct 22, 2010 at 1:16 PM, Sam Pullara < <spullara at gmail.com>
>> spullara at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> I'm hoping that now that Apple has officially decided to no longer
>>> maintain the JVM that the community takes over. I've had good luck building
>>> it from time to time using soylatte-1.0.3-32 as the base build JVM.
>>>
>>> Sam
>>>
>>> On Oct 22, 2010, at 10:04 AM, Lussier, Denis wrote:
>>>
>>> I'm curious if anyone (besides myself) might be interested in helping to
>>> bring up to current the OpenJDK6 OSX work.
>>>
>>> On Fri, Oct 22, 2010 at 1:35 AM, John Rose < <john.r.rose at oracle.com>
>>> john.r.rose at oracle.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>> I see that the BSD port has been integrated with b105 since 8/14.
>>>>
>>>> Meanwhile, JDK7 has now advanced to b115.
>>>>
>>>> Is there a problem holding up the integration of the new JDK7 changes?
>>>>
>>>> (Is there a project status page where I should be looking?  The wiki
>>>> looks too quiet.)
>>>>
>>>> -- John
>>>>
>>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
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