RFR: 8276905: Function frag_col has a deployment target which is incompatible with this OS [v2]

[Magnus Ihse Bursie]

On Thu, 11 Nov 2021 15:32:01 GMT, Jayathirth D V <jdv at openjdk.org> wrote:

>> When JDK is built on BigSur with Xcode12.5 and used to run jtreg tests in macOS10.15 with Xcode <=12.4 we are getting compilation error. We dont set any deployment target when when we use xcrun to create .air file and this issue looks similar to https://developer.apple.com/forums/thread/105719. Also https://developer.apple.com/forums/thread/105719 states that even if they set app deployment target they need to explicitly set deployment in "xcrun metal".
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>> Made same change to use -mmacosx-version-min=10.12.00 in our make file. Whether we should keep 10.12.00 or 10.13/14 is open to discussion for metal pipeline.
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>> SwingSet2, J2DDemo & JCK/jtreg runs in CI are green. Also Vitaly(Submitter) has confirmed that patch resolves the issue.
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> Jayathirth D V has updated the pull request incrementally with one additional commit since the last revision:
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>   Use Macro for version

I'm withdrawing my approval until the issues raised by Phil has been resolved.

It sounds like this change need more thorough discussion about what problems you are experience, and what are acceptable solutions to it.

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Changes requested by ihse (Reviewer).

PR: https://git.openjdk.java.net/jdk/pull/6346