Mac OS PPC link failure

[Eric Richardson]

On Tue, Jan 4, 2011 at 6:56 PM, Kurt Miller <kurt at intricatesoftware.com> wrote:
> On 01/04/11 16:52, Eric Richardson wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> I've been trying to compile the latest OpenJDK7 and have run into a
>> problem I don't understand. Here is the last part of the compile - I
>> can attach the entire log if needed. It seems that it should link the
>> libjvm.dylib and then create a symbolic link but it seems to just
>> create a sym link to itself - thus the "Too many levels of symbolic
>> links" error. Looking at it now it seems to fail on the missing symbol
>> and then create the symlinks.
>>
>> The build file in question is bsd-port/hotspot/make/bsd/makefiles/vm.make
>>  Any help appreciated.
>
> Hi Eric,
>
> I ran into this over the holidays too. I pushed the correction up
> to the repository. Refresh and this should be fixed for you. Note
> however, that the resulting build can not be used to bootstrap the
> next zero PPC build due to issues with the change in the jdk startup
> process vs DYLD_LIBRARY_PATH. I was going to look into that soon but
> the power cord to my PowerBook G4 15in was damaged by my dog tonight
> and all have left is battery power. Hopefully the Apple store will
> still have parts for this laptop.
>

Hi Kurt,

Thanks, I'll update tonite and try again - I have been looking at the
Library Path stuff on MacOS as well so maybe I can help out there. I
was really pleased to get this far. Hopefully you can find a cord for
your G4.

Eric