What's the "real" official build platform for MacOS X?

[Erik Joelsson]

Hello Volker,

We intended to switch to 5.1.1 and clang a long while back, but it never 
went through. I don't know why the OpenJDK Wiki thinks it did. I'm 
currently working on getting it done.

/Erik

On 2015-03-04 11:21, Volker Simonis wrote:
> Hi,
>
> recently a changed [1] was pushed to jdk9/hs-gc/hotspot which does not
> compile neither with clang 5.1 nor with clang 4.0.
>
> The OpenJDK Wiki [2] lists XCode / clang5.1.1 as the official compiler
> tool chain for MacOS X so I wonder how this change could slip trough
> JPRT without noticing the problem. The only explanation I have so far
> is that JPRT still uses gcc to compile on MacOS X. Can somebody
> confirm this?
>
> Thanks,
> Volker
>
> PS: meanwhile the problem has been fixed [3]
>
> [1] http://hg.openjdk.java.net/jdk9/hs-gc/hotspot/rev/1573e72240b9
> [2] https://wiki.openjdk.java.net/display/Build/Supported+build+platforms
> [3] https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-8074319