After I moved (and added to) Landon's instructions for building OpenJDK 7 on Mac OS X 10.5 (http://wikis.sun.com/display/OpenJDK/Darwin9Build ), I moved the "install this version as current" info to another page. Right now, this is at http://wikis.sun.com/display/OpenJDK/Switching+Java+Versions+on+Mac+OS+X .
Is there any interest in packaging the OpenJDK 7 binaries into a real Mac OS X-compatible location? One can put them somewhere under /usr and make sure that /usr/bin/java points to the right version and this is good for server-ish things, but there may be reasons to install the OpenJDK 7 binaries under /System/Library/Frameworks/JavaVM.framework/ Versions/. There is a whole other kind of directory structure under there. I believe that if we want to have regular Cocoa applications that use java to use the OpenJDK 7 VM, it would have to be installed in the JavaVM.framework.... Or do we care? Or has this been slated to be done at some future time? Now that I got past my build issues, I looked at the info about running tests. I can see what might be needed to run jtreg. Ha ha. Yeah. Like anyone would want to sign up for that.... Perhaps there are bsdport-specific tools for invoking whatever tests can be run? Yes? No? Well, anyway, now I have the JDK built. I can experiment with my server-based frameworks. But if there is any kind of path to assist testing on Mac OS X, I would be interested in hearing about it. And I would not be surprised if there is some info that can go to the wiki. cheers - ray
