OpenJDK Zero PPC Build on OS X Leopard

[John Yeary]

Hello Kurt,

There were some remarks from the Apple team that it would not build. Do you
believe that is not the case? I hope you are right. I would love to squeeze
a little more life from my G5. It is still such a nice machine.

John

On Thu, Jul 14, 2011 at 9:52 PM, Kurt Miller <kurt at intricatesoftware.com>wrote:

> **
> Hi John,
>
> I took a look at this and yes there are problems with the zero build.
> The first one is that langtools detection of when to build stub files
> is broken again. I have a fix for this that I will push up shortly.
>
> The second problem is that the zero build is not up to date with the
> current hotspot builds. zero support is back at b143 but the rest of
> hotspot is at b147. In particular RicochetFrame changes have made
> zero support not buildable. We will need to wait for the zero developers
> to catch up to us before the ppc build will work again.
>
> Regards,
> -Kurt
>
> On 6/25/11 3:38 PM, John Yeary wrote:
>
> Hello All,
>
> I was just trying to do a build on Leopard for PPC, and no matter what I
> have tried it fails. Does anyone have a current build script that will work
> on OS X Leopard for PPC?
>
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> John Yeary
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> http://www.johnyeary.com
> *@jyeary*
>
> "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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"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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