08.09.2011, 20:15, "Kurt Miller": >> 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.
I think it would be pointless to prepare universal (PPC+i386) builds of OpenJDK. 1. It will require extra complications in the build system because of different hotspot implementations needed. 2. People on Intel Macs will prefer macosx-port (which AFAIK is incompatible with Mac OS <= 10.5) rather than X11-based bsd-port 3. People usually prefer to have native binaries without unneeded arches. However, it's possible to build non-fat ppc32 binaries on Intel Macs with OS version up to Snow Leopard. Xcode 4 on Lion is incapable of building ppc binaries. -- Regards, Konstantin
