Mac OS X port - update (original) (raw)

Kumar Srinivasan kumar.x.srinivasan at oracle.COM
Mon Feb 6 09:31:02 PST 2012

Right now, JDK8 doesn't contain Mac OS X specific code, it cannot be built or run on Mac, so I don't see how individual fixes can be fw-ported. Instead, I would expect bulk migration from 7u to 8 similar to what Michael/Alex did for macosx-port to 7u-osx and 7u-osx to 7u-dev.

The fixes I made to the langtools repo consisted of making a makefile or two and some shell script tests aware of macos. These changes could be ported to jdk8, without breaking anything, but as you say, there would be no way to test the changes. So, I'll let this proposed bulk migration port the changes. You're right. Moreover, any change like this would become a conflict when merging from 7u to 8.

For this very reason, I think we need to do this relatively quickly, as the source base in jdk8 is diverging or will diverge rapidly.

Kumar

Thanks, Artem

- jjh

Thanks,

Artem

- jjh

Kumar

-Alan

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