OpenJDK 8u45 on Yosemite

[David DeHaven]

> Hi all
> 
> I had posted about problems with building openjdk8 on Mac OS X Yosemite last year. I am still unable to do the same. I did the following based on some posts tot he list in January:
> 
> 1. bash configure —with-tools-dir=“/Applications/Xcode4/Xcode.app/Contents/Developer/usr/bin/”
> 
> 2. Applied the following patch to saproc.make:
> 	- SALIBS = -g -framework Foundation -F/System/Library/Frameworks/JavaVM.framework/Frameworks -framework JavaNativeFoundation -framework Security -framework CoreFoundation
> + SALIBS = -isysroot /Applications/Xcode4/Xcode.app/Contents/Developer/Platforms/MacOSX.platform/Developer/SDKs/MacOSX10.8.sdk -g -framework Foundation -F/System/Library/Frameworks/JavaVM.framework/Frameworks -framework JavaNativeFoundation -framework Security -framework CoreFoundation
> Now, the error shown is the following:
> error: unable to open executable ‘libjvm.dylib'
> 
> What all should I do for a successful build?

The backport of JDK-8043340 should have resolved this, this was done in time for 8u40.

In short: don't use --with-tools-dir, use --with-xcode-path instead.


There was a later fix to hotspot for building on Yosemite but it was too late for 8u40:
changeset:   7161:10c237e58446
user:        ddehaven
date:        Wed Mar 18 18:12:01 2015 -0700
summary:     8075400: Cannot build hotspot in jdk8u on OSX 10.10 (Yosemite)

Patch:
http://hg.openjdk.java.net/jdk8u/hs-dev/hotspot/rev/10c237e58446

You can try applying that to your workspace and see if it helps.

-DrD-