Improving OpenJDK for FreeBSD

[David Holmes]

On 21/02/2025 2:19 am, Magnus Ihse Bursie wrote:
> 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.

Well we do have (pretty) good portable source code, but we also have OS 
specific layers that have to be adapted. As others have noted FreeBSD 
seems to have more in common with Linux than macOS in many places and 
that will cause quite a problem in terms of trying to share code.

Cheers,
David

> 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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