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

[Erik Joelsson]

You could hack configure to disable that check and try a slightly newer 
xcode. Maybe 5.x or 6.x works well enough. It's likely that you then 
also need to add --disable-warnings-as-errors to configure. You could 
also try installing an older Macos as a virtual machine on your current 
mac. Note though that the licensing around that is unclear.

/Erik


On 2018-02-14 16:35, mbl wrote:
> 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 
>> <mailto: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/
>>>   * 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?
>>>>
>>>
>>
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