Build failures on OS X 10.9.3

[Martijn Verburg]

Hi all,

FYI - I have a similar problem on Mac OS X 10.9.5 with the latest XCode 6 &
XQuartz 2.7.7.

Cheers,
Martijn

On 29 September 2014 04:16, Bernhard Urban <bernhard.urban at jku.at> wrote:

> On Thu, Sep 25, 2014 at 1:15 AM, David DeHaven <david.dehaven at oracle.com>
> wrote:
>
> >
> > >>> I suspect it'll be easier to just install gcc on your mac. The last
> > time I
> > >>> checked openjdk 8 didn't compile correctly with clang, so you might
> > also
> > >>> have to patch the source code as well as the autoconf scripts.
> > >> So Apple are now shipping a compiler by default, but it's clang, which
> > >> they've aliased to gcc, despite the fact that the binaries differ?
> > >>
> > >> So all the standard hacks from earlier OS versions where you test for
> > >> the presence of certain binaries to see whether devtools are installed
> > >> are now bust?
> > >>
> > >> Well, isn't that ... lovely?
> > >>
> > >> I'd be intruigued to know whether OpenJDK 9 will build with Clang, as
> > >> the autoconf seems happy with the behaviour of "gcc". I might install
> > >> the TrueType headers and see how far that gets.
> > > OpenJDK 9 is supposed to compile properly with clang on macosx.
> > Configure will auto-select clang if your Xcode version is >= N, for some
> > number of N (I suspect 5, but I'm not sure).
> >
> > Correct, Xcode >= 5 will select clang as the compiler.
> >
> > Does Freetype detection use pkg-config? I've never had an issue building
> > OpenJDK with MacPorts' Freetype installed.
> >
> > -DrD-
> >
>
> it looks like the configure script of OpenJDK 8 doesn't detect newer
> versions of freetype.  I had problems with xquartz 2.7.6 (that contains
> freetype 2.5.3), but xquartz 2.7.5 (containing freetype 2.5.0.1) it worked
> for me.
>
> From a quick look into the config.log it looks like that the directory
> organization of the header files changed, and the OpenJDK8 configure script
> is not aware of it.
>
> -Bernhard
>