Improving OpenJDK for FreeBSD

Magnus Ihse Bursie magnus.ihse.bursie at oracle.com
Thu Feb 20 16:19:33 UTC 2025


On 2025-02-14 05:37, David Holmes wrote:

> The number of makefile changes needed was surprising ... make me 
> wonder what macOS was doing in some places.

Actually, to me it is the other way around. :) If we have good portable 
source code, there would not have to be many changes to the actual code 
base to support BSD. The only changes that would be required would be 
allowing the build system to build on BSD. Thus I'm expecting the 
majority of the changes to be build related. Then again, maybe some of 
these changes are due to lack of generalization in the build system, but 
from the cursory glance I've given the PR so far, it does not look like it.

/Magnus




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