I believe that getting IcedTea to work on an OSX port is a great thing, but... I I think this should be an extended goal that's tackled first for OpenJDK 7 (since it already builds on OSX).
I think the milestones toward getting a robust OSX release for OpenJDK 6 should be: 1.) Get a baseline build of the latest OpenJDK 6 code bundle (currently b20) to build on OSX 10.5 Intel in 32-bit mode. There should be a minimal set of patches applied to the make files and source code similar to what is currently done for OpenJDK 7 BSD port. 2.) Get the above build working as a universal binary. 3.) Make sure the above Universal binary runs really well on 10.4 PPC thru 10.6 Intel. --Luss On Fri, Oct 22, 2010 at 7:41 PM, Eric Richardson <ekrichard...@gmail.com>wrote: > I tried back quite a while a go to get Icedtea to build on PPC - have > a perfectly good iMac but no Intel based Mac. I didn't get too far but > worked on it quite a bit. The reason we used Icedtea is to get the > Zero port along with the bsd-port. I haven't looked closely whether > Zero and bsd-port are upstream in JDK now. Zero and Shark are > upstream? > >
