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

[Volker Simonis]

Hi Erik,

thanks for the info and good to see that there's at least one build
platform where we're ahead of the pack :)

Regards,
Volker


On Wed, Mar 4, 2015 at 11:37 AM, Erik Joelsson <erik.joelsson at oracle.com> wrote:
> 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
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