Build failing on Mac OS X 10.12.5

[Erik Joelsson]

I think configure is looking for freetype in the wrong place on newer 
Macosx. You will need to point it out explicitly using a combination of 
--with-freetype* arguments.

The "Bad file descriptor" error is benign IIRC, but happens a lot on mac.

/Erik

On 2017-06-29 18:09, Rohit Vaidya wrote:
> A gentle reminder experts. I found something similar issue posted here
> https://community.oracle.com/thread/4038913
>
>
> On Sun, Jun 18, 2017 at 12:49 AM, Rohit Vaidya <rohitvvv at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Hello Experts,
>>
>> I was running a fresh JDK 9 build on Mac OS Sierra 10.12.5.
>> "$sh configure" fails with freetype dependency. On installing freetype
>> with brew it still continues to fail.
>>
>> configure: error: Could not find freetype! You might be able to fix this
>> by running 'brew install freetype'.
>>
>> /Users/rohitvaidya/Downloads/projects/9dev/common/autoconf/generated-configure.sh:
>> line 82: 5: Bad file descriptor
>> configure exiting with result code 1
>>
>> Has anyone faced this before?
>> --
>> Regards,
>> Rohit Vaidya
>>
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