tracking JDK7

[Eric Richardson]

I tried back quite a while a go to get Icedtea to build on PPC - have
a perfectly good iMac but no Intel based Mac. I didn't get too far but
worked on it quite a bit. The reason we used Icedtea is to get the
Zero port along with the bsd-port. I haven't looked closely whether
Zero and bsd-port are upstream in JDK now. Zero and Shark are
upstream?

Eric

On Fri, Oct 22, 2010 at 11:45 AM, Lussier, Denis <denisl at openscg.com> wrote:
> Perhaps we would have better luck trying to build a Universal binary on 10.4
> Intel??
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> On Fri, Oct 22, 2010 at 2:42 PM, John Yeary <johnyeary at gmail.com> wrote:
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>> Tony,
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>> 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.
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>> 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
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>> 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:
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>>> 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
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>>> On Fri, Oct 22, 2010 at 1:16 PM, Sam Pullara <spullara at gmail.com> wrote:
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>>>> 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:
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>>>> 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>
>>>> 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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>> --
>> John Yeary
>> --
>> http://javaevangelist.blogspot.com
>> http://www.johnyeary.com
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>> "Far better it is to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even
>> though checkered by failure, than to take rank with those poor spirits who
>> neither enjoy much nor suffer much, because they live in the gray twilight
>> that knows not victory nor defeat."
>> -- Theodore Roosevelt
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