MacOSXPort wiki instructions a little stale

[David DeHaven]

Yes, for the most part. If the questions tend to be more about specific parts of the JRE then those are better directed toward their respective mailing lists, e.g., AWT questions should be directed to awt-dev at openjdk.java.net

-DrD-

> Thanks. That's good to know. Is this still the right mailing list to be on
> for macosx related openjdk topics?
> 
> On Wed, Oct 22, 2014 at 1:21 AM, Sergey Bylokhov <Sergey.Bylokhov at oracle.com
>> wrote:
> 
>> Hi, Nick.
>> macosx-port project was completed some time ago, so OS X now 'just another
>> platform' in OpenJDK 8/9.
>> A latest version of the build instruction you can find inside a repo:
>> 
>> http://hg.openjdk.java.net/jdk9/jdk9/raw-file/tip/README-builds.html
>> http://hg.openjdk.java.net/jdk9/jdk9/file/8ef1dc220c0e/README
>> 
>> 
>> On 22.10.2014 10:38, Nick Howard wrote:
>> 
>>> Going through the build instructions on
>>> https://wiki.openjdk.java.net/display/MacOSXPort/Main I ran into a few
>>> things:
>>> 
>>> 1. the build step doesn't tell you to chmod & run ./configure. This was
>>> easy to fix because make warned me that I needed to do it. It'd be nice if
>>> it were in the docs though.
>>> 
>>> 2. The resulting build directories seem to have changed slightly. The wiki
>>> lists this as the java bin location:
>>> 
>>>     build/macosx-universal/j2sdk-image/bin/java
>>> 
>>> but when I build, it ends up here:
>>> 
>>>     build/macosx-x86_64-normal-server-release/jdk/bin/java
>>> 
>>> 3. There's a similar difference for the install instructions
>>> wiki:
>>> 
>>>    cp -R build/macosx-universal/j2sdk-bundle/jdk1.8.0.jdk
>>> ~/Library/Java/JavaVirtualMachines
>>> 
>>> what I used:
>>> 
>>>     cp -R build/macosx-x86_64-normal-server-release/jdk
>>> ~/Library/Java/JavaVirtualMachines/jdk1.8.0-internal
>>> 
>>> These issues were all pretty minor and easy to figure out myself, but I
>>> think it'd be really slick if they were updated. I'm amazed at how
>>> painless
>>> building openjdk is--I should have tried it years ago!
>>> 
>>> 
>> 
>> --
>> Best regards, Sergey.
>> 
>> 
> 
> 
> -- 
> -Nick Howard
> http://blog.baroquebobcat.com/