requirements for building on Mac?

[Anthony Petrov]

Hi Ray,

JDK is buildable on 10.6. Please run Apple Software Update to install 
all the latest patches on your Snow Leopard system. This should update 
the FreeType lib as well.

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best regards,
Anthony

On 04/22/12 02:36, Ray Kiddy wrote:
>
> I am seeing differing statements about what is needed to build jdk7u-dev. Which is correct?
>
> The page at http://code.google.com/p/openjdk-osx-build/ says "Packages built on SnowLeopard (10.6) and tested on SnowLeopard (10.6) and Lion (10.7)."
>
> The page at https://wikis.oracle.com/display/OpenJDK/Mac+OS+X+Port says "Prerequisites to build... Mac OS X 10.7.3."
>
> And when I actually try to build on 10.6.8 (using the instructions on https://wikis.oracle.com/display/OpenJDK/Mac+OS+X+Port), I get:
>
> 	ERROR: FreeType version  2.3.0  or higher is required.
> 	 /bin/mkdir -p /Users/ray/Projects/openjdk/jdk7u-dev/build/macosx-amd64/btbins
>
> 	rm -f /Users/ray/Projects/openjdk/jdk7u-dev/build/macosx-amd64/btbins/freetype_versioncheck
> 	Failed to build freetypecheck.
>
> 	Exiting because of the above error(s).
>
> 	make: *** [post-sanity] Error 1
>
> So, should I try to get around this error, or is building on 10.6 just not going to work? And if it should work, should this be stated on the wikis.oracle.com page?
>
> I had been able to build a couple of months ago. But perhaps the landscape is changing?
>
> thanx - ray
>