static libraries on mac

[Kim Barrett]

> On May 15, 2019, at 8:36 AM, David Holmes <david.holmes at oracle.com> wrote:
> 
> Hi Johan,
> 
> Contributions must be provided via OpenJDK infrastructure - either on cr.openjdk.java.net or email attachments (or inline) to the lists. So please create a webrev and file a bug.

There is a MacOSX-specific --enable-static-build configure
option, but it's been broken for a while for various reasons (see
https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-8211732).  You might
not need to file a new bug, instead using that one.

> 
> Thanks,
> David
> 
> On 15/05/2019 8:45 pm, Johan Vos wrote:
>> In order to build static libraries for macosx, I had to apply 2 small
>> changes to the build files[1].
>> If someone is willing to sponsor this, I can create a webrev for it?
>> Thanks,
>> - Johan
>> [1]
>> https://github.com/johanvos/jdk/commit/40ef1b297a3531fed3059700a398f86abeed92ce