RFR: JDK-8069540: Remove universal binaries support from hotspot build

David Holmes david.holmes at oracle.com
Tue Aug 9 01:00:15 UTC 2016


Hi Erik,

On 9/08/2016 2:04 AM, Erik Joelsson wrote:
> Hello,
>
> The hotspot native libraries on macosx are currently being packaged as
> "universal binaries" (while all other libraries and executables are
> not). There seems to be no point in doing so since we only build for one
> architecture anyway. I believe this is just something that was never
> cleaned up a long time ago and has just been around since. In the new
> hotspot build, we duplicated the behavior with the intention of removing
> it later. That time has now come.
>
> I have verified that a hotspot job for macosx still works.
>
> Bug: https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-8069540
>
> Webrev: http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~erikj/8069540/webrev.01/

Am I missing something:

  MACOSX_UNIVERSAL=@MACOSX_UNIVERSAL@

there does not seem to be anything ever setting the substitution variable ??

Is the LIPO variable/tool used any more?

Otherwise removal looks fine.

Thanks,
David

> /Erik
>



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