MacOSX port build issues

Artem Ananiev artem.ananiev at oracle.com
Mon Mar 14 09:55:00 PDT 2011


Hi, team,

below is a list of issues I faced when building macosx-port. I'd like to 
hear your opinion, whether these are bugs or features, should I file new 
requests in OpenJDK bugzilla (or whatever bug tracking system we decide 
to use), etc.

1. On Windows I often clone jdk7/awt/jdk and build it separately from 
all other OpenJDK parts (hotspot, jaxp, jaxws and corba). On Mac, I can 
only build the whole forest.

2. HotSpot build creates folders named bsd_*, which is obviously a BSD 
port legacy.

3. Flags to pass to make: SA_APPLE_BOOT_JAVA, ALWAYS_PASS_TEST_GAMMA, 
ALLOW_DOWNLOADS - look like hacks/workarounds for some problems. For 
example, test_gamma fails because it just can't find JRE to launch. I 
would like to have this issues filed as bugs, so any person who would 
like to contribute to the project can easily find a task to do.

Thanks,

Artem


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