RFR: 7113349 JDK8 port to macosx

[Alan Bateman]

On 03/03/2012 14:31, Alan Bateman wrote:
> On 03/03/2012 14:14, Henri Gomez wrote:
>> Guys could you detail JDK8 build process on OSX ?
>>
>> I'd like to add this to my openjdk-osx-build project.
>>
>> Thanks
>>
> The Mac port isn't in jdk8 yet but should be very soon. The webrev 
> that Michael sent a link to is just part of the process to get the 
> changes agreed before he pushes it to the jdk8/tl forest, something 
> that I hope will happen within a few days. All going well it should 
> mean the Mac port should get to the jdk8 master in a few weeks 
> (exactly when it's clearly but I assume it will bake in jdk8/tl for a 
> bit).
Just to follow up on this thread. Lana pushed the Mac port to the jdk8 
master yesterday so you should be able to clone jdk8/jdk8 and do your 
stuff (with a jdk7 build as the bootstrap JDK and working around the 
gamma launcher issue).

-Alan