RFR: 7113349 JDK8 port to macosx

[Michael McMahon]

Yes, it does. It's probably worth waiting until I push the changes to 
the jdk8/tl forest
(which I plan to do later today). Then Stephen can be sure he is building
a consistent source base.

- Michael.

On 06/03/12 16:43, Anthony Petrov wrote:
> Hi Michael,
>
> Could you please confirm if SwingSet2 works for you when you're using 
> a JDK8 build with your Mac Port changes in place?
>
> -- 
> best regards,
> Anthony
>
> On 3/6/2012 5:40 AM, Stephen Bannasch wrote:
>> At 3:29 PM -0800 3/5/12, Stuart Marks wrote:
>>> On 3/5/12 12:52 PM, Stephen Bannasch wrote:
>>>> At 4:05 PM +0000 3/5/12, Michael McMahon wrote:
>>>>> I'm still having problems reproducing this, even with the same 
>>>>> boot JDK you are using.
>>>> I've reproduced John's error on 10.6.8 applying webrev.4 on top of 
>>>> jdk8/tl.
>>>>
>>>> The error occurs running ./test_gamma:
>>>>   ...
>>>>   echo "Doing vm.make build:"
>>>>   Doing vm.make build:
>>>>   All done.
>>>>   cd bsd_amd64_compiler2/product&&  ./test_gamma
>>>>   Using java runtime at: 
>>>> /Users/stephen/Library/Java/JavaVirtualMachines/1.7.0_04-2012_03_04.jdk/Contents/Home/jre
>>>>   Error occurred during initialization of VM
>>>>   java.lang.NullPointerException
>>>>     at java.util.Hashtable.put(Hashtable.java:432)
>>>>     at java.lang.System.initProperties(Native Method)
>>>>     at java.lang.System.initializeSystemClass(System.java:1115)
>>> OK, I think I figured it out. It's our old friend LANG.
>>>
>>> Earlier in this thread, John had observed
>>>
>>>> The NPE is because libjava.dylib is handing a null value to 
>>>> Hashtable, for the key "user.language", in System.c.
>>> The user.language property comes from (or at least is related to) 
>>> the LANG environment variable. IfLANG is unset, I get this crash in 
>>> test_gamma. If LANG is set to en_US.UTF-8 the build succeeds.
>>
>> After adding LANG=C my build on Mac OS X 10.6.8 completed.
>>
>> However I still have the error running SwingSet2.jar (also present on 
>> MLVM)
>>
>> ./build/macosx-amd64/j2sdk-bundle/1.8.0.jdk/Contents/Home/bin/java 
>> -jar /Developer/Extras/Java/JFC/SwingSet2/SwingSet2.jar
>>
>> Exception in thread "main" java.awt.HeadlessException
>>   at 
>> sun.java2d.HeadlessGraphicsEnvironment.getDefaultScreenDevice(HeadlessGraphicsEnvironment.java:77)
>>   at SwingSet2.main(SwingSet2.java:251)
>>
>> FYI: updated build scripts: https://gist.github.com/1980690
>>