Why MACOSX_UNIVERSAL == true by default?

[Daniel D. Daugherty]

Adding macosx-port-dev at ... to the thread...


On 10/12/12 2:56 PM, Vladimir Ivanov wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Does anybody know/remember why MACOSX_UNIVERSAL=true by default?

Yes. :-)


> I'm asking, because JDK layout on MacOS X differs from other platforms 
> and to make export_*_jdk build targets work correctly, you need to 
> specify ALT_MACOSX_UNIVERSAL=false.
>
> I'd like to fix that (change default value to false), but I have no 
> idea why it was set to true in the first place.

Jim Melvin restored Universal build support into HotSpot. However,
the rest of the JDK did not follow suit. As far as I know/remember,
only the hotspot repo supports Universal build at the moment.

Dan

>
> Best regards,
> Vladimir Ivanov