WE'RE HIRING: Beta testers for the new hotspot build system!

[kirk at kodewerk.com]

Hi Magnus,

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> This is a known issue with the configure script (https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-8147754 <https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-8147754>). It is fixed in jdk9/dev, but the fix has not yet propagated to the build-infra forest.

Ok, missed this...
> 
> Fortunately, there's a simple workaround: just add  --with-freetype=/opt/X11 to your configure command line and try again!

Ok, that worked. I had tried using —with-freetype=/opt/X11/include/freetype2 which of course didn’t work.

Thanks you.
— Kirk