I just wanted to update build people on this issue. There are pages on the wiki for building on Mac OS X 10.5.8 and on Snow Leopard. See the "Building from source" section of http://wikis.sun.com/display/OpenJDK/BSDPort . I have updated http://wikis.sun.com/display/OpenJDK/Darwin9Build with information from an external post of Landon Fuller's. (FYI, I checked with him about the copying and he was ok with it.) Since I am not using Snow Leopard, I am leaving that page to someone else.
If anyone _can_ build OpenJDK 1.7 on a 10.5 system, please share information about how they this is accomplished. I particularly like the way Landon structured his page. For each separate requirement, the page says "you need this", then "do this (or this or this)", and then "if that worked, you will/should see this." I have been working with other build system, such as for Mozilla, and the doc often leaves out that last step. So, if someone can build, can they report what they do and what they then see? I am willing to share my build logs (http://www.wykiwyk.com/openjdk/buildLogs/ ), but at this point I can only demonstrate how not to succeed. Unfortunately, it is easy to find info from people like me, who cannot build. Is it just that the people who can build are silent? It would be great if, one day, we could go to http://openjdk.java.net/install/ and see Mac OS X binaries to install from there, in addition to the Solaris and Linux binaries. Making the BSD-Port more generally buildable will probably help that. As the largest installed base of Unix systems on the planet, Mac OS X can help the OpenJDK effort if there is some support. Please post or update the wiki with any suggestions or questions. cheers - ray refs: http://wikis.sun.com/display/OpenJDK/BSDPort http://wikis.sun.com/display/OpenJDK/Darwin9Build http://confluence.concord.org/display/CCTR/Build+OpenJDK+Java+1.7.0+on+Mac+OS+X+10.5 http://www.javarants.com/2009/11/01/building-openjdk-1-7-0-for-mac-os-x-10-6-snow-leopard/ http://openjdk.java.net/install/ FYI, my particular build error is this. I suspect I am missing some minor little environment variable, but it is not obvious which. -rrk /bin/mkdir -p /Users/ray/Projects/OpenJDK/bsd-port/build/bsd-i586/tmp/ java/java.lang/java/obj rm -f /Users/ray/Projects/OpenJDK/bsd-port/build/bsd-i586/tmp/java/ java.lang/java/obj/.class.headers.i586 # Running javah: /NOT-SET/re/jdk/1.7.0/promoted/latest/binaries/bsd-i586/bin/javah - bootclasspath /Users/ray/Projects/OpenJDK/bsd-port/build/bsd-i586/ classes -d /Users/ray/Projects/OpenJDK/bsd-port/build/bsd-i586/tmp/ java/java.lang/java/CClassHeaders/ \ java.lang.Object java.lang.Class java.lang.Compiler java.lang.String java.lang.Thread java.lang.ThreadGroup java.lang.StrictMath java.lang.Number java.lang.Byte java.lang.Short java.lang.Integer java.lang.Long java.lang.Float java.lang.Double java.lang.Boolean java.lang.Character java.lang.System java.lang.ClassLoader java.lang.Runtime java.lang.SecurityManager java.lang.Shutdown java.lang.Package java.lang.ref.Finalizer java.lang.reflect.AccessibleObject java.lang.reflect.Field java.lang.reflect.Method java.lang.reflect.Constructor java.lang.reflect.InvocationTargetException java.lang.reflect.Array java.lang.reflect.Proxy java.security.AccessController java.util.Date java.util.TimeZone java.util.ResourceBundle java.util.concurrent.atomic.AtomicLong java.util.prefs.FileSystemPreferences java.io.Console java.io.FileDescriptor java.io.InputStream java.io.FileInputStream java.io.FileOutputStream java.io.PrintStream java.io.RandomAccessFile java.io.DataInputStream java.io.DataOutputStream java.io.File java.io.FileSystem java.io.UnixFileSystem java.io.ObjectInputStream java.io.ObjectOutputStream java.io.ObjectStreamClass java.lang.Throwable java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError java.lang.StringIndexOutOfBoundsException java.lang.OutOfMemoryError sun.misc.Version sun.misc.VM sun.misc.VMSupport sun.misc.Signal sun.misc.MessageUtils sun.misc.NativeSignalHandler sun.misc.GC sun.reflect.ConstantPool sun.reflect.NativeConstructorAccessorImpl sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl sun.reflect.Reflection java.lang.ClassLoader\$NativeLibrary make[4]: /NOT-SET/re/jdk/1.7.0/promoted/latest/binaries/bsd-i586/bin/ javah: Command not found make[4]: *** [/Users/ray/Projects/OpenJDK/bsd-port/build/bsd-i586/tmp/ java/java.lang/java/obj/.class.headers.i586] Error 127 make[3]: *** [all] Error 1 make[2]: *** [all] Error 1 make[1]: *** [jdk-build] Error 2 make: *** [build_product_image] Error 2
