Building on Mac (David DeHaven)

[Erik Joelsson]

A few comments inline.

On 2013-03-16 21:38, Mani Sarkar wrote:
> Hi,
>
> The OpenJDK adopters in the community have been testing out
> the steps lately to build OpenJDK on the MacOS and so far things are fine,
> we didn't need to install MacPort or have major issues with the Mac.
>
> You can have a look at the steps if these help with your issues:
> http://java.net/projects/adoptopenjdk/pages/AdoptOpenJDKBuildInstructions
> http://java.net/projects/adoptopenjdk/pages/GetSource
> http://java.net/projects/adoptopenjdk/pages/GetSource#Mac_OS_X
> http://java.net/projects/adoptopenjdk/pages/Build#Mac_OS_X
There is no need to cd down to common/makefiles anymore. We hid the new 
build system there before making it default. Now you can run bash 
configure and make from the root. Please see README-builds.html in the 
src root for more details. It should be up to date now, thanks to Kelly.
> http://java.net/projects/adoptopenjdk/pages/MakeImages
>
To get verbose build logs, the preferred way is to use the LOG variable 
and not VERBOSE. LOG can be set to warn, info, debug or trace. Again see 
README-builds.html. Also, the build output is always saved to a log file 
in the build output directory unless disabled, so no need to pipe yourself.

/Erik
> Any feedback is welcome.
>
> Cheers,
> mani
>
>
>>>> It's not installed by default, and I'm not sure why you'd want to since
>> Apple provides it. But if it's there that could be a concern.
>>> If you install subversion, you get file, and there are other things that
>> (if installed) will pull in subversion (e.g., trac).
>>
>> Ah Trac, how I remember thee...
>>
>>
>>>> Incidentally, someone else got a build working with brew so there's an
>> alternative to MacPorts for those who don't want to use it. The only caveat
>> is that brew installs everything into the system paths, which could cause
>> problems later on. And it uses Ruby *hack cough*...
>>> Installing stuff on system paths is not what I want.
>> Same here, which is one reason I stick with MacPorts. I'm not sure what
>> the fuss is anyways, once binaries are available ports come in very fast.
>>
>> -DrD-
>>