Yosemite problems with FreeType

[Bernhard Urban]

Hi Dan,

I had some problems building JDK8 on Mavericks regarding freetype.  My
solution was to use XQuartz 2.7.5 (instead of 2.7.7), maybe it's worth a
try.


-Bernhard

On Wed, Oct 22, 2014 at 12:46 AM, Dan Smith <daniel.smith at oracle.com> wrote:

> Looks like I'm a little bit too close to the bleeding edge, but I wonder
> if anyone's looking into cleaning up building on OS X Yosemite (10.10).
>
> Building jdk9 mostly works fine, but I've had issues with FreeType.
>
> ----
> Problem #1:
>
> > make dist-clean
> > sh configure --with-boot-jdk=$JAVA8_HOME
>
> ...
> configure: error: Could not find freetype!
> configure exiting with result code 1
>
> (I tried re-installing XQuartz (updated to 2.7.7), in response to this or
> a similar error.  Not sure if that made any difference, but I still get an
> error.)
>
> Workaround is to point directly to my X11 directories:
> > sh configure --with-boot-jdk=$JAVA8_HOME
> --with-freetype-include=/usr/X11/include/freetype2
> --with-freetype-lib=/usr/X11/lib
>
> ----
> Problem #2:
>
> > make images
>
> ...
> xattr: No such file:
> /Users/dan/Dev/jdk/jdk9/build/macosx-x86_64-normal-server-release/jdk/lib/libfreetype.dylib.6
> ...
> make[3]: *** No rule to make target
> `/Users/dan/Dev/jdk/jdk9/build/macosx-x86_64-normal-server-release/jdk/lib/libfreetype.dylib.6',
> needed by
> `/Users/dan/Dev/jdk/jdk9/build/macosx-x86_64-normal-server-release/images/j2re-image/lib/libfreetype.dylib.6'.
> Stop.
> make[3]: *** Waiting for unfinished jobs....
> make[2]: *** [images] Error 2
> make[1]: *** [main-wrapper] Error 2
> make: *** [images] Error 2
>
>
> If I skip the 'images' step, the build succeeds the first time (so I do
> get usable output, fortunately) but subsequently fails with:
> > make
>
> ...
> cp: symlink: libfreetype.6.dylib: File exists
> make[3]: ***
> [/Users/dan/Dev/jdk/jdk9/build/macosx-x86_64-normal-server-release/jdk/lib/libfreetype.dylib.6]
> Error 1
> make[2]: *** [java.desktop-copy] Error 2
> make[2]: *** Waiting for unfinished jobs....
> make[1]: *** [main-wrapper] Error 2
> make: *** [default] Error 2
>
> I found /usr/X11/lib/libfreetype.6.dylib, and tried linking from or
> copying to /usr/X11/lib/libfreetype.dylib.6, but that didn't help.
>
> —Dan
>