[MacPorts] #20662: openjdk6_bootstrap contains only i386 binaries

[Brandon Allbery]

On Aug 13, 2009, at 14:35 , Frank J. R. Hanstick wrote:
> 	Are there instructions somewhere on how to do this?
>
> On Aug 13, 2009, at 11:18 AM, Brandon Allbery wrote:
>
>> On Aug 13, 2009, at 14:04 , Frank J. R. Hanstick wrote:
>>> 	Can anyone tell me if any other programs ported by MacPorts that  
>>> is i386 only as implied in the reason for closing this ticket?
>>
>>
>> wine / wine-devel / wine-crossover-games are intrinsically x86  
>> only, for one obvious example.  openjdk is not intrinsically x86- 
>> only, as I see Solaris SPARC support, but if there's no bootstrap  
>> binaries for PPC then it's unlikely to be supported by MacPorts  
>> unless someone does the work to bootstrap it.
>>
>> It looks to me like any JDK 1.6 will work for bootstrapping,  
>> although I'd be surprised if the port made any attempt to support  
>> anything other than a fixed bootstrap, so someone who cared could  
>> build openjdk6 PPC binaries using Sun JDK 1.6 and package them up  
>> as the PPC openjdk6_bootstrap.


http://hg.openjdk.java.net/jdk7/build/raw-file/tip/README-builds.html  
is for openjdk7 but is probably close enough for openjdk6 --- the Sun  
JDK 1.6 link is dead, but you want to use the one Apple installed  
anyway (this may require Leopard).

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