OpenJDK Zero PPC Build on OS X Leopard

[Mike Swingler]

On Sep 8, 2011, at 8:11 AM, Kurt Miller wrote:

> Hi Henri,
> 
> On Thursday 08 September 2011 08:53:42 am Henri Gomez wrote:
>> Kurt,
>> 
>> It could be nice for PPC users to get it packaged
>> 
>> Sad I don't have OSX PPC box available to make package built on it via
>> a Jenkins slave ;(
> 
> Once it is working well again, hopefully someone from the comunity will
> step up and do that work or donate you a PPC box for your build farm.

An Intel Leopard box should be able to compile a universal binary for both PPC and Intel, but would require explicitly passing -arch flags.

The J2SE 5.0 builds on Leopard for ppc, i386, and x86_64 were always made using an Intel builder.

Just a thought,
Mike Swingler
Java Engineering
Apple Inc.