macOS High Sierra, version 10.13.2 configure: error: Couldnotfind freetype! You might be able to fix this by running 'brewinstallfreetype'

[mbl]

Thank you to let me know,

You are right, i see my Xcode 4 is , so what can I do if I still want to build openjdk on my macos? I really don not want to downgrade my Mac OS.

> On 14 Feb 2018, at 00:55, Erik Joelsson <erik.joelsson at oracle.com> wrote:
> 
> 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/ <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 <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?
>>> 
>> 
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