On Wed, 27 Jan 2021 20:43:44 GMT, Phil Race <p...@openjdk.org> wrote:
>> To guarantee backwards compatible binaries on Macos, we use the option >> -mmacosx-version-min. This is currently set to 10.9, which is a really >> ancient version. I propose we bump this to 10.12, which is still a rather >> conservative old version (support ended in 2019). >> >> The driving issue for bumping this now is the aarch64 port, where building >> for aarch64 requires the version min to be set to 11.0. Having a large gap >> between the target versions becomes problematic as we hit a lot of >> deprecation warnings in shared code. To be able to fix these deprecation >> warnings, we need a smaller version gap. >> >> Just bumping us to 10.12 triggers warnings in libsplashscreen, so I will >> temporarily add "deprecated-declarations" to the list of disabled warnings >> there until they can be fixed in JDK-8260402. > > Marked as reviewed by prr (Reviewer). Will this affect the minimum version of macOS which will be able to run on? don't we need a CSR(not sure)? ------------- PR: https://git.openjdk.java.net/jdk/pull/2268
