BUILD_JOBJC woes on Mac

[Alan Bateman]

On 21/05/2013 08:36, David Holmes wrote:
>
> While that is probably true, it seems to me that the cause of the 
> problem here is that the javac source path includes 
> /u/alanb/ws/tl/build/macosx-x86_64-normal-server-release/jdk/gensrc  - 
> and that seems wrong to me. It comes from CompileJavaClasses.gmk:
>
> $(eval $(call SetupJavaCompilation,BUILD_JOBJC,\
>                 SETUP:=GENERATE_15BYTECODE,\
>                 DISABLE_SJAVAC:=true,\
>                 
> SRC:=$(JDK_TOPDIR)/src/macosx/native/jobjc/src/core/java \
>
> $(JDK_TOPDIR)/src/macosx/native/jobjc/src/runtime-additions/java \
>                      $(JDK_OUTPUTDIR)/gensrc, \
>                 INCLUDES := com/apple/jobjc,\
>                 EXCLUDES := tests/java/com/apple/jobjc,\
>                 BIN:=$(JDK_OUTPUTDIR)/jobjc_classes,\
>                 JAR:=$(JDK_OUTPUTDIR)/lib/JObjC.jar, \
>                 JARINDEX := true))
>
>
> No idea why JObjC.jar has to be built as 1.5. But in that case it 
> should be able to compile against the boot JDK and not put gensrc on 
> the sourcepath. (Maybe it was meant to be gensrc_jobjc/src ?)
It seems to include gensrc because that is where com.apple.jobjc.** is 
generated. I also do not know why this is built as 1.5. I think we need 
someone familiar with jobjc to provide an overview on its usage.

-Alan