jdk8u-dev MacOS 10.15+ build environment?

[Andrew Haley]

On 3/15/21 12:24 PM, Simon Tooke wrote:
> 
> 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.

The rules about backports to new environments tend to be more
relaxed than general enhancements. We want JDK 8u to continue
to be relevant for as long as it is supported; that's why we
allowed AArch64 support to be imported into 8u. So, let's get
this done.

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Andrew Haley  (he/him)
Java Platform Lead Engineer
Red Hat UK Ltd. <https://www.redhat.com>
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