Mac OS X build errors missing instancetype + further issues just after building jdk.xml.ws

[Martijn Verburg]

Hi David,

Thanks for your response!  I was using GCC as I had a host of other errors
when using clang :-|.  I'll post those in a separate mail for comparison.

Cheers,
Martijn

On 15 April 2015 at 18:22, David DeHaven <david.dehaven at oracle.com> wrote:

>
> > Mac OS X 10.10.3, latest Xcode (6.3), using GCC 4.8
> >
> > --------
> >
> > After getting past the defined(__OPENBSD__) bug I'm running into a host
> of
> > new errors starting with:
> >
> >
> /Users/karianna/Documents/workspace/AdoptOpenJDK_projects/jdk9/hotspot/agent/src/os/bsd/MacosxDebuggerLocal.m:26:
> >
> /Applications/Xcode.app/Contents/Developer/Platforms/MacOSX.platform/Developer/SDKs/MacOSX10.10.sdk/usr/include/objc/NSObject.h:22:1:
> > error: unknown type name 'instancetype'
> > - (instancetype)self;
> > ^
>
> You're using an SDK that's intended to be used exclusively with clang. I
> think you'd have to go back to MacOSX10.8.sdk for compatibility with gcc.
>
> I'm curious why you're even trying to compile with gcc?
>
> -DrD-
>
>