OpenJDK 6 Skeleton Plan for OSX Universal Binary

[Lussier, Denis]

I put in 100 EUR...

On 10/27/10, Rob Ross <rob.ross at gmail.com> wrote:
> See here:
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> http://jkoala.org/
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> This so far represents the best possibility of actually making this happen!
> :)
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> And yes, I've donated 50 EUR to the cause, and intend to contribute software
> development as well.
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> Rob
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> On Oct 26, 2010, at 6:48 PM, Lussier, Denis wrote:
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>> It's my personal goal that it be run well behaved Java client (swing
>> and swk) and server apps (tomcat, jboss, etc, etc) perfectly.  In
>> short, any 100% pure java app will run.  We must keep in mind that
>> older versions of Eclipse for OSX are hardcoded to use the built in
>> Apple JVM's and ignore the JAVA_HOME Env variable.  In a phase 2 we
>> could get ther IcedTea extensions built on the Web so we get the
>> Webstart. Stuff and other goodies.
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>> On 10/26/10, MiB <digital.discuss at gmail.com> wrote:
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>>> 24 okt 2010 kl. 13.56 skrev Lussier, Denis:
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>>>> I believe that getting IcedTea to work on an OSX port is a great
>>>> thing, but...  I I think this should be an extended goal that's
>>>> tackled first for OpenJDK 7 (since it already builds on OSX).
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>>>> I think the milestones toward getting a robust OSX release for
>>>> OpenJDK 6 should be:
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>>>> 1.) Get a baseline build of the latest OpenJDK 6 code bundle
>>>> (currently b20) to build on OSX 10.5 Intel in 32-bit mode.   There
>>>> should be a minimal set of patches applied to the make files and
>>>> source code similar to what is currently done for OpenJDK 7 BSD port.
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>>>> 2.) Get the above build working as a universal binary.
>>> What are the possible pitfalls of making it build and then run on PPC?
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>>>> 3.) Make sure the above Universal binary runs really well on 10.4
>>>> PPC thru 10.6 Intel.
>>> I assume this means "run well in a compatible fashion on 10.4 Intel/
>>> PPC, 10,5 intel/PPC as well 10.6 Intel". Perhaps obvious, but I just
>>> want to make it that. :-)
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>>> The problem I've had with Landon Fullers Open JDK 7 2009 beta-
>>> compilation – Thanks Landon! – is I'm not sure how to make it a full
>>> citizen. I've reset JAVA_HOME pointing to it and for some apps, like
>>> CLI apps, this works fine and others, like Eclipse or specifically
>>> Springsource Tool Suite refuse to run on it. Netbeans accepted it as a
>>> target VM, but I haven't been able to start up Netbeans with on it.
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>>> This leads me to the issue what distributions the Mac openJDK should
>>> be compatible with. Is it the openJDK on other platforms or the OS X
>>> java implementation style? In 10.6 it's easy to add additional JVM's,
>>> but seems less so in 10.5.
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