Problem building JDK 8

[Cédric Champeau]

I managed to get past this error using the following configuration line:

./configure --with-target-bits=64 
--with-freetype-include=/usr/include/freetype2/ 
--with-freetype-lib=/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu

It's good enough for us to be able to build, so I'll stick with it, but 
it seems the detection mechanism is somehow broken.

On 05/01/2015 17:22, Volker Simonis wrote:
> Maybe this is a 32/64 bit mismatch - i.e. you are on a 64-bit machine
> with 64-bit libfreetype but configuring for 32-bit ?
>
>
>
> On Fri, Dec 19, 2014 at 10:08 AM, Cédric Champeau
> <cedric.champeau at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Hi everyone,
>>
>> Some of you may know that we try to test Groovy builds against the latest
>> versions of the JDK. For that, we have setup a CI build of OpenJDK 7, 8 and
>> 9. However, the JDK 8 builds have been failing for several months now (sorry
>> I didn't have much time to investigate this specific subject, so I rely on
>> EA builds instead, which gives us late but valuable feedback).
>>
>> Basically, in the JDK 8 build log (JDK 9 doesn't have the issue), I can read
>> this in the logs:
>>
>> [02:00:17]:     [Step 1/2] configure: error: Could not find freetype! You
>> might be able to fix this by running 'sudo apt-get install
>> libfreetype6-dev'.
>>
>> However if I try to do so, I see that freetype *is* installed:
>>
>> # apt-get install libfreetype6-dev
>> Reading package lists... Done
>> Building dependency tree
>> Reading state information... Done
>> libfreetype6-dev is already the newest version.
>>
>> The server is running Ubuntu 14.04.1 LTS, which gcc 4.8.2, which is supposed
>> to "work flawlessly" from what I read here:
>> https://wiki.openjdk.java.net/display/Build/Supported+Build+Platforms
>>
>> We build from http://hg.openjdk.java.net/jdk8u/jdk8u
>>
>> Thanks for your help!
>>
>> --
>> Cédric Champeau
>> SpringSource - Pivotal
>> http://twitter.com/CedricChampeau
>> http://melix.github.io/blog
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>>


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Cédric Champeau
Groovy language developer
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