jdk8u-dev MacOS 10.15+ build environment?

[Andrew Haley]

On 4/28/21 9:36 PM, Hohensee, Paul wrote:
> Restarting this thread. We at Amazon have been building 8u using Xcode 12 for some months, see Ben Taylor's post
> 
> https://mail.openjdk.java.net/pipermail/jdk8u-dev/2021-March/013558.html
> 
> so that’s what we'd like to see targeted. Several backports have already been done (8200550, 8230428, 8077364, 8055754, 8033289) and another is tagged (8253375).

So as far as I can see, the only issue is formatting the backports and getting
them approved. It'd be very nice to get them done as a group.

For what it's worth, I'm on the bleeding edge here because I'm testing AArch64.
The patches from Simon Tooke allow an x86 jdk8u build to work in that environment.

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