On Thursday 08 September 2011 12:26:33 pm Mike Swingler wrote: > On Sep 8, 2011, at 9:15 AM, Kurt Miller wrote: > > > On Thursday 08 September 2011 11:42:34 am Mike Swingler wrote: > > > >> On Sep 8, 2011, at 8:11 AM, Kurt Miller wrote: > >> > >>> Hi Henri, > >>> > >>> On Thursday 08 September 2011 08:53:42 am Henri Gomez wrote: > >>>> Kurt, > >>>> > >>>> It could be nice for PPC users to get it packaged > >>>> > >>>> Sad I don't have OSX PPC box available to make package built on it via > >>>> a Jenkins slave ;( > >>> > >>> Once it is working well again, hopefully someone from the comunity will > >>> step up and do that work or donate you a PPC box for your build farm. > >> > >> An Intel Leopard box should be able to compile a universal binary for both > >> PPC and Intel, but would require explicitly passing -arch flags. > >> > >> The J2SE 5.0 builds on Leopard for ppc, i386, and x86_64 were always made > >> using an Intel builder. > > > > That's an interesting thought. I'm not sure how both PPC and Intel could be > > compiled into the same universal binary since ppc uses the Zero hotspot > > implementation and Intel the JIT implementation. Perhaps an Intel Leopard > > box could build the PPC/ Zero binaries though using -arch ppc. > > Actually, as I recall (it takes a while to page all this stuff back into my > brain), the J2SE 5.0 Makefiles for HotSpot actually were completely separate > for PPC vs. i386+x86_64, and we just had a final make rule that lipo'd the > different architectures together at the end. The PPC "side" of the Makefile > machinery ran fine on an Intel builder though.
Ahh. That makes sense now. :-) Thanks for the clarification. Regards, -Kurt
