OpenJDK Zero PPC Build on OS X Leopard

[Mike Swingler]

On Sep 8, 2011, at 9:07 AM, Henri Gomez wrote:

>> An Intel Leopard box should be able to compile a universal binary for both PPC and Intel, but would require explicitly passing -arch flags.
> 
> No more Leo here, Snow and Lion only ;(
> 
>> The J2SE 5.0 builds on Leopard for ppc, i386, and x86_64 were always made using an Intel builder.
> 
> Interesting.
> 
> BTW, did the various arch detector in OpenJDK couldn't broker the
> 'universal binary' build ?

I'm not sure what you mean? What is an "arch detector"? We do have the macosx-port setup to do Intel-Universal builds, but I don't think any of that logic trickled back to bsd-port.

Regards,
Mike Swingler
Java Engineering
Apple Inc.