[jdk11u-dev] RFR: 8260518: Change default -mmacosx-version-min to 10.12

Tue Feb 8 17:36:09 UTC 2022

On Tue, 8 Feb 2022 08:16:59 GMT, Vladimir Kempik <vkempik at openjdk.org> wrote:

> Please review this backport of JDK-8260518 to jdk11u-dev
> The backport is not applying clean due to the context code difference.
> It's needed mostly to resolve this compilation error on macos-aarch64
> splashscreen_sys.m:274:39: error: 'NSAlphaFirstBitmapFormat' is deprecated: first deprecated in macOS 10.14 [-Werror,-Wdeprecated-declarations]
> This will allow to add macos-aarch64 build into github actions for jdk11u-dev ( once jep-391 backport is integrated)

Lgtm.

Note to Maintainers: 10.9 through 10.14 are eol, and the oldest machines supported by 10.12 are from 2009/2010, see https://support.apple.com/kb/SP742?locale=en_USh. Imo it's safe to say that it's very unlikely there are machines running OSX versions earlier than 10.12.

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Marked as reviewed by phh (Reviewer).

PR: https://git.openjdk.java.net/jdk11u-dev/pull/810