JDK9: RFR: 8019470: Changes needed to compile JDK8 on MacOS with clang compiler

[Magnus Ihse Bursie]

Looks good to me. Just one question, since clang otherwise duplicates the gcc flags: is it correct to drop -fPIC in clang?

/Magnus

> On 6 mar 2014, at 09:36, Erik Joelsson <erik.joelsson at oracle.com> wrote:
> 
> Hello,
> 
> I was waiting for Magnus to look at this since he is more involved in this code at the moment. I think it looks good ok, but would prefer if he got the chance to look at it too.
> 
> /Erik
> 
>> On 2014-03-06 01:11, Henry Jen wrote:
>> Ping! Is three any concern on this patch? I got JPRT reports no problem and other reports success.
>> 
>> I hope we can get this in as early as we can because build is evloving quickly, and I think it only can get better after pushed for more tests.
>> 
>> Cheers,
>> Henry
>> 
>>> On 02/26/2014 12:23 AM, Henry Jen wrote:
>>> Hi,
>>> 
>>> Please review a webrev to enable XCode5 build on Mac OS X, this webrev
>>> add basic clang flags and detect Xcode version to set default toolchain
>>> to clang for Xcode5 and after, otherwise set to gcc for Mac OS X.
>>> 
>>> http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~henryjen/jdk9/8019470/1/webrev/
>>> 
>>> This patch build on Maverick with Xcode 5, but is not yet sufficient to
>>> enable clang build on my Arch Linux, where I installed clang 3.4. There
>>> are some undeclare identifier|function|type warnings/errors, the cause
>>> of which is still under investigation, my guess lies in precompile
>>> header, but I think that can be addressed later.
>>> 
>>> Cheers,
>>> Henry
>