compile error on mac ppc box

[Toby Thain]

On 01/04/13 10:40 AM, Christophe Phi wrote:
> Hi
> ...
>
> I think Kurt provided an early jdk7 binary for ppc... the follow ing url
> has some good ptrs:
>
> http://jnorthr.wordpress.com/2012/08/13/java-open-jdk-7-sdk-1-7-for-apple-ppc-imac-macbook-g3-g4-and-g5-part-1/
>
>
> NB The old zero (pre -hsx24) was not tracking the jsr292 Ricochet frames
> stuff very well,
> and they (Ricochet frames are gone after hsx24 (b31?) and also in jdk 8.
> jdk8 has the best Zero/Shark
> implementation at the moment (thanks Roman!) jdk8 might work best as it
> has macosx stuff too
> (although its more recent osx ? I am not an osx guru so ymmv ).
>
> Chris
> PS
> When I get "some time"tm I intend to try to build jdk7 on ppc . (Both Linux
> and Mac OSX 10.5 but the latter is tricky.)
> I would probably use the current jdk7u Zero with the patch that Volker
> Simonis
> provided after that I would try to build Volkers aix-ppc jvm. Again, no
> idea of
> osx gotcha's for these, built Volkers aix-ppc on linux and it would
> build itself
> last year, but haven't kept up since then.
>
>

I would be interested in seeing any results from jdk6 and jdk7 on 
PowerPC. Especially as Scala (and some libraries) are breaking 
compatibility with jdk5 which is all that is available currently for OS 
X on PowerPC.

--Toby