Building IcedTea7 Using BSD option On OS X

[Andrew John Hughes]

2009/1/1 Michael Franz <mvfranz at gmail.com>:
> Hi,
>
> I have been able to build IcedTea 7 on OS X.  I removed a bunch of patches
> and had to fake some stuff to get it to work.  I wanted to use zero and
> shark.  This is the version that prints:
> java version "1.7.0_0-fastdebug-bsd"
> IcedTea 1.9-pre-rb5fe6c65b574 Runtime Environment (build
> 1.7.0_0-fastdebug-bsd-b42)
> OpenJDK Core VM (build 14.0-b08, interpreted mode)
>
> Is this enough to tell if I was able to build with zero and shark?
>

'Core VM' shows that the zero VM has been built.  I'm not sure about
how to tell if Shark is being used -- Gary?
To build Shark, you would have needed LLVM.

> This is what I used to configure:
> ./configure --enable-zero
> --with-ecj-jar=/opt/local/share/java/eclipse-ecj.jar
> --with-xalan2-jar=/opt/local/share/java/xalan.jar
> --with-xalan2-serializer-jar=/opt/local/share/java/serializer.jar
> --with-xerces2-jar=/opt/local/share/java/xercesImpl.jar --without-rhino
> --disable-liveconnect --with-project=bsd --with-openjdk
> --with-openjdk-home=/Users/mfranz/developer/openjdk-bsd/bin/openjdk7-darwin-i386-20080820
> --disable-xrender --enable-shark
>
> Some of my issues were because the BSD port is not completely up-to-date
> with OpenJDK 7.
>

Yes that's happened with a number of the other ports, though b40 up
seem to be able to use the same patches more or less.
If we can make the process easier, please let us know.

> Michael
>
> On Tue, Dec 30, 2008 at 2:31 AM, Andrew John Hughes
> <gnu_andrew at member.fsf.org> wrote:
>>
>> 2008/12/30 Michael Franz <mvfranz at gmail.com>:
>> > Hi,
>> >
>> > I tried to build IcedTea 7 using the --with-project=bsd option.  Most of
>> > my
>> > issues are with applying the patches.  I have not gone through all of
>> > them,
>> > but they seem to fail around the bsd specific lines.
>> >
>> > What would be the best way to handle these differences?
>> >
>> > Michael
>> >
>>
>> Let us know the specifics and we'll work out a solution.  As I say, we
>> enabled the option but no-one on the IcedTea team uses BSD so it
>> hasn't been tested.
>> --
>> Andrew :-)
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