Improving OpenJDK for FreeBSD

[Andrew Hughes]

On 08:31 Fri 14 Feb 2025, Thomas Stüfe wrote:
> 
> - the bigger issue to me is the amount of large ifdef sections added to
> os/bsd and bsd/<arch> : I think its time to separate MacOS from BSD and
> make both first-class OSes. The amount of duplicate coding would be
> outweighed by clearer code. Up for discussion, of course; that is just my
> gut feeling right now.
> 

+1

A cursory glance through the PR suggested to me that there is as much
a case for the BSD port sharing a directory with Linux as there is
MacOS, given the number of cases I saw where it was added to Linux
#ifdefs.

All the UNIX-based ports (currently everything bar Windows) are always
going to share a degree of overlap, something we recognised on the JDK
side when the 'unix' subdirectory was added (most of which still lives
under 'solaris' in 8u and earlier). If *BSD is going to be maintained
upstream, it should have its own directory distinct from MacOS.

Another positive of this is that any *BSD changes then only affect
that port and don't risk MacOS breakage.  Of course, equally, that
does mean the *BSD port will no longer get free updates which apply to
MacOS.

Thanks,
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