RFR: 8303485: Replacing os.name for operating system customization

[Justin King]

On Thu, 9 Mar 2023 16:11:19 GMT, Roger Riggs <rriggs at openjdk.org> wrote:

> > Has this totally killed of BSD support on the JDK side? I thought building non-macOS BSD was still viable, but perhaps not - certainly not after this change.
> 
> I haven't found any use of BSD and I don't think the build supports a BSD build.

It looks like FreeBSD and NetBSD have their own separate ports. They fork the OpenJDK repos and then add changes on-top to make it work for BSD. That is kind of disappointing...one more thing for them to patch I suppose. I wonder how big the diff is...it looks like github.com/battleblow/jdk19u is what FreeBSD uses.

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PR: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/pull/12931