OpenJDK 8u45 on Yosemite

[Manas Thakur]

Okay, I found that I should use “jdk8u-dev”, and not “jdk8u”; —with-xcode-path is a valid option there.
I’ll update if I am able to build now.

Regards,
Manas



> On 10-Jun-2015, at 9:19 am, Manas Thakur <manasthakur17 at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> Hi David
> 
> —with-code-path is an unrecognised option; it’s not there in the configure script as well.
> 
> Manas
> 
> 
>> On 10-Jun-2015, at 2:41 am, David DeHaven <david.dehaven at oracle.com <mailto:david.dehaven at oracle.com>> wrote:
>> 
>> 
>>> 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 <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-
>> 
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