How to Build Java 6 (JDK 6) on MacOSX

Ok, who volunteers? It’s a BSD after all, so it should be possible to do your own build. How I love makefile hacking :) It’s probably a lot of work but it’ll be worth it …

I wonder whether there is already a port for freebsd, this could help a lot.

I used fink to install everything needed, like gawk. Then I symlinked all the stuff the linux make is expecting:

sudo ln -s /usr/bin/egrep /bin/
sudo ln -s /usr/bin/grep /bin/
sudo ln -s /usr/bin/sed /bin/
sudo ln -s /sw/bin/gawk /usr/bin/

The GNU Make Manual is recommended reading.

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