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.bylok...@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/
