On Fri, 10 Mar 2023 14:22:17 GMT, Justin King <jck...@openjdk.org> wrote:
> > > Has this totally killed of BSD support on the JDK side? I thought > > > building non-macOS BSD was still viable, but perhaps not - certainly not > > > after this change. > > > > > > The macOS port in 7u4 was based on a BSD port and there was a time when it > > was possible to build. Right now, we have src/hotspot/os/bsd and native > > code in the libs that is compiled in with _ALLBSD_SOURCE. It's sad to see > > the BSD port bit rot but if it's not maintained or tested in the OpenJDK > > project then the changes proposed here may be okay. For porters then know > > which code needs to be ported is important, ideally there would be a > > compile or build time if someone significant is missing. > > Yes it is unfortunate. It would be nice if NetBSD, FreeBSD, OpenBSD, and > friends would collaborate. I think the majority of their changes are fixing > build issues and making AWT/Swing use X11 instead of macOS-specific stuff > (Quartz or Cocoa or whatever). Maybe I'll go poke them eventually. I bet @battleblow has tried, but that wasn't fruitful with the OpenJDK team. ------------- PR: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/pull/12931
