IcedTea and OS X

[Gary Benson]

Tom Marble wrote:
> Briggs wrote:
> > So, I'll ask the silly question... Does iced tea make it
> > possible to build the OpenJDK on OS X yet?
> 
> This is a very interesting question.  Did you realize that
> Mac OS X is, itself, built with the GNU toolchain?
> 
> In theory this shouldn't be too hard, but the trick is that
> OpenJDK is missing the operating specific directory (os/macosx)
> and the architecture specific directories (os_cpu/macosx_*).

The processor-specific directory cpu/ppc or cpu/ppc64 too, for
non-x86 Macs.  The portable interpreter work I'm doing might
help that.

Cheers,
Gary