Update: On Tue, Jan 03, 2012 at 05:57:54PM -0600, Chris Turner wrote: > > x64 built through 1.6, however am encountering some build errors on 1.7. > These do seem to be build configuration errors, and not e.g. JVM runtime > errors, so I suspect they will not be too hard to correct. >
Got 1.7 to build properly on 64 bit from 1.6 without much tweaking - basically the 'defs.make' needs to understand x86_64 as well as amd64 - so for the impatient - follow the previous 1.4,1.5,1.6 bootstrap instructions + bmake configure <hack in x86_64 block to bsd defs make by copying the amd64 one> bmake install package should yield a 1.7 install & package. Am currently doing a sanity rebuild to make sure I've recorded all of the changes, then will try a native 1.7 -> 1.7 hosted build - If all is well there, will be working to get the patches / boostrap tarballs in after that. Cheers, - Chris