jdk8u-dev MacOS 10.15+ build environment?

[Simon Tooke]

On 2021-03-15 7:19 a.m., Andrew Haley wrote:
> On 3/1/21 2:33 PM, Andrew Leonard wrote:
>
>> I have a Mac OS contribution i've developed and tested at AdoptOpenJDK, I
>> would like to contribute it upstream to jdk8u-dev, unfortunately the
>> jdk8u-dev supported build platform is MacOS 10.7. Is there a method people
>> use to build & test their contributions if you don't have a MacOS 10.7
>> environment? The AdoptOpenJDK jdk8u base has patches to allow building
>> jdk8u with Xcode 11.5 on 10.15+..
> Let's get those patches in, then. Who contributed them? We'd
> need to get them to contribute to 8u.

Almost all the patches are backports; as they were not bugfixes per se, 
they rarely got approved.

https://github.com/stooke/jdk8u-xcode10  see especially the patch 
directories.

-Simon

>
>> How do others approach Mac contributions?
>
>