On Wed, 27 Jan 2021 19:23:48 GMT, Erik Joelsson <er...@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.

This pull request has now been integrated.

Changeset: 53f1b938
Author:    Erik Joelsson <er...@openjdk.org>
URL:       https://git.openjdk.java.net/jdk/commit/53f1b938
Stats:     5 lines in 3 files changed: 1 ins; 0 del; 4 mod

8260518: Change default -mmacosx-version-min to 10.12

Reviewed-by: tbell, prr, ihse, serb

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PR: https://git.openjdk.java.net/jdk/pull/2268

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