Configure(still?) broken on OS X

David DeHaven david.dehaven at oracle.com
Tue Jan 19 22:40:22 UTC 2016


>>> Thanks, looks like this does the trick:
>>> 
>>> ./configure --with-freetype=/opt/X11
>> 
>> This came up a while back, probably on another list...
>> 
>> XQuartz had to change the install location due to 10.11 not allowing installation to /usr/X11, so our configure script should be updated to also check in /opt/X11 now. I don't know if a bug was ever filed for this or not.
>> 
>> To answer the earlier question: Yes, freetype is required for OpenJDK builds on Mac.
> 
> Incidentally, I have the same version of XQuartz installed on 10.10.5 and it creates symlinks:
> /usr/X11 -> /opt/X11
> /usr/X11R6 -> /opt/X11
> 
> but those symlinks cannot be created on 10.11 for the aforementioned reason.
> 
> -DrD-
> 

I filed an issue to fix this and provided a proposed fix, but I've not tested it at all (and I can't at the moment...)
https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-8147754

-DrD-




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