macOS High Sierra, version 10.13.2 configure: error: Could notfind freetype! You might be able to fix this by running 'brew installfreetype'

[Erik Joelsson]

Hello,

My guess would be that Xcode 4 isn't working on Macos 10.13. Internally 
we build JDK 8 on 10.8.

/Erik


On 2018-02-13 01:41, mbl wrote:
> Thank you for your kind help, I’ve jump out of the last pit.
>
> Now the new challenge is:
>
> I execute the following command:
>
>  bash ../8dev/configure 
>  --with-boot-jdk=/Library/Java/JavaVirtualMachines/jdk1.8.0_131.jdk/Contents/Home 
> --with-freetype=/usr/local/Cellar/freetype/2.9/ --enable-ccache 
> --with-jvm-variants=server --with-boot-jdk-jvmargs="-Xlint:deprecation 
> -Xlint:unchecked" --disable-zip-debug-info 
> MAKE=/Applications/Xcode9.app/Contents/Developer/usr/bin/make
>
> But I see the following error
>
> dyld: Library not loaded: 
> @rpath/DVTFoundation.framework/Versions/A/DVTFoundation
>   Referenced from: 
> /Applications/Xcode.app/Contents/Developer/usr/bin/xcodebuild
>   Reason: no suitable image found.  Did find:
> /Applications/Xcode.app/Contents/Developer/usr/bin/../../../SharedFrameworks/DVTFoundation.framework/Versions/A/DVTFoundation: 
> cannot load 
> '/Applications/Xcode.app/Contents/Developer/usr/bin/../../../SharedFrameworks/DVTFoundation.framework/Versions/A/DVTFoundation' 
> because Objective-C garbage collection is not supported
> xcrun: error: unable to locate xcodebuild, please make sure the path 
> to the Xcode folder is set correctly!
> xcrun: error: You can set the path to the Xcode folder using 
> /usr/bin/xcode-select -switch
> configure: error: Xcode 4 is required to build JDK 8, the version 
> found was . Use --with-xcode-path to specify the location of Xcode 4 
> or make Xcode 4 active by using xcode-select.
> configure exiting with result code 1
>
>
> Please help me more. Thank your advance!
>
>
> My Env is:
>
>   * OS: macOS High Sierra, version 10.13.
>   * Repo : http://hg.openjdk.java.net/jdk8u/jdk8u-dev/
>   * Tags: jdk8u162-b12
>     <http://hg.openjdk.java.net/jdk8u/jdk8u-dev/rev/173b2b978c05>
>
>
> Other info:
>
>   * The configure error pick me to mv my default xcode (9.0.4) to a
>     backup as `/Applications/Xcode9.app`. I install Xcode4.6.3 to
>     `Applications/Xcode.app`, and execute `sudo xcode-select -switch
>     /Applications/Xcode.app/Contents/Developer` to active it.
>
>
>
>
>> On 13 Feb 2018, at 02:47, Erik Joelsson <erik.joelsson at oracle.com 
>> <mailto:erik.joelsson at oracle.com>> wrote:
>>
>> Hello,
>>
>> I just tried this myself and configure is automatically picking up my 
>> freetype from brew in /usr/local/opt/freetype/. Looking at my log, 
>> this is done using pkg-config from brew. So you could try installing 
>> pkg-config (brew install pkg-config). You can also try adding 
>> --with-freetype=/usr/local/opt/freetype if that's where brew 
>> installed it for you.
>>
>> /Erik
>>
>>
>> On 2018-02-11 22:51, mbl wrote:
>>> OS: macOS High Sierra, version 10.13.2
>>> Repo : https://github.com/dmlloyd/openjdk.git
>>> Branch : jdk/jdk
>>>
>>> mbldeMacBook-Pro:openjdk mbl$ bash ./configure 
>>> --with-boot-jdk=/Library/Java/JavaVirtualMachines/jdk9.0.4.jdk/Home
>>> configure: Configuration created at Mon Feb 12 14:43:36 CST 2018.
>>> configure: error: Could not find freetype! You might be able to fix 
>>> this by running 'brew install freetype'.
>>> /projects/jdpros/openjdk/.build/generated-configure.sh: line 82: 5: 
>>> Bad file descriptor
>>> configure exiting with result code 1
>>> mbldeMacBook-Pro:openjdk mbl$ sudo brew install freetype
>>> Password:
>>> Error: Running Homebrew as root is extremely dangerous and no longer 
>>> supported.
>>> As Homebrew does not drop privileges on installation you would be 
>>> giving all
>>> build scripts full access to your system.
>>> mbldeMacBook-Pro:openjdk mbl$ brew install freetype
>>> Updating Homebrew...
>>> Warning: freetype 2.9 is already installed
>>>
>>>
>>> What can I do?
>>
>