Request for Review: Add Mac OS X Instructions to README-builds.html (original) (raw)

Henri Gomez henri.gomez at gmail.com
Thu Apr 26 08:21:19 PDT 2012

I was able to build on Mountain Lion with XQuartz installed: http://xquartz.macosforge.org/landing/, but I had to do some makefile hacking to get it to work. I don't have a cross-version patch yet, sorry.

I'd personally like an option to build a JDK without the X11 support. I'm trying to imagine a scenario when I would ever want an X11-based AWT, but can't.

Scott, X11 dependencies are only for FreeType. Embedding FreeType in OpenJDK OSX package could avoid current problem, ie binaries produced on Lion didn't works on Snow

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