JDK 8 cannot be built on Sierra, correct?

[Jim Laskey (Oracle)]

Actually, just realizing I can take that idea one step further.  I can install !0.8 as a VM on VMWare.

Thank you.

— Jim



> On Feb 2, 2017, at 4:00 AM, Erik Joelsson <erik.joelsson at oracle.com> wrote:
> 
> There was a discussion about this a few weeks back, but you are correct. David DeHaven suggests creating a VM to build in.
> 
> http://mail.openjdk.java.net/pipermail/build-dev/2017-January/018518.html
> 
> /Erik
> 
> On 2017-02-01 20:00, Jim Laskey (Oracle) wrote:
>> I haven’t tried in a while, but I ran up against it today.
>> 
>> Neither the xcode-select (xcode4) or configure --with-xcode-path work.
>> 
>> dyld: Library not loaded: @rpath/DVTFoundation.framework/Versions/A/DVTFoundation
>>   Referenced from: /Volumes/Elephant/Users/jlaskey/Downloads/Xcode4.app/Contents/Developer/usr/bin/xcodebuild
>>   Reason: no suitable image found.  Did find:
>> 	/Volumes/Elephant/Users/jlaskey/Downloads/Xcode4.app/Contents/Developer/usr/bin/../../../SharedFrameworks/DVTFoundation.framework/Versions/A/DVTFoundation: cannot load '/Volumes/Elephant/Users/jlaskey/Downloads/Xcode4.app/Contents/Developer/usr/bin/../../../SharedFrameworks/DVTFoundation.framework/Versions/A/DVTFoundation' because Objective-C garbage collection is not supported
>> 
>> 
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