What is "official" status of OpenJDK on [Free]BSD?

Greg Lewis glewis at eyesbeyond.com
Wed Mar 27 20:12:39 UTC 2019


On Thu, Mar 21, 2019 at 02:21:21PM +0300, Lev Serebryakov wrote:
>  I've checked you OpenJDK 13 sources (to check Panama project, not on
> FreeBSD, unfortunately) and was surprised, that there ARE
> "src/hotspot/os/bsd" and "src/hotspot/os_cpu/bsd_x86" directories and
> they are not empty.
> 
>  Does it mean, that OpenJDK 13 will have official support for BSD in
> "main"/"baseline" tree?

No. The use of 'bsd' for those directories has been true for many releases
(see the openjdk6 port for instance).  It's a leftover from MacOS X support
originally being pulled into the main tree from the BSD port.

-- Greg


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