jdk8 and MacOSX Mavericks XCode gcc

[Jim Laskey (Oracle)]

On Oct 24, 2013, at 2:53 PM, David DeHaven <david.dehaven at oracle.com> wrote:

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>> I managed to build OpenJDK on Mavericks using the Xcode4 tool chain, with one minor glitch (Bob, installing Quartz X11 addresses X11 issues.)
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>> Before installing Mavericks, I renamed Xcode.app to Xcode4.app.
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>> I then installed Mavericks and sundry updates (Xcode5, iTunes, iWorks, iLife, ...)
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>> After checking out tl, I configured with
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>> 	sh ./configure --with-tools-dir=/Applications/Xcode4.app/Contents/Developer/usr/bin
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> You can also install the Xcode 4 command line tools and run "sudo xcode-select --switch /Applications/Xcode4.app" then you shouldn't need the --with-tools-dir configure argument (I have both 4.6 and 5 installed). The Xcode 5 command line tools clobber the gcc symlinks, which is (IMHO) a bug in Apples CL tools installer...
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I tried that and the build scripts seemed to hang on "xcrun lipo"

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> I think ultimately we should investigate using xcrun to find the tools rather than relying on xcode-select. With that we could build without having the command line tools installed at all. The configure script should be able to do this, then use the same mechanism as --with-tools-dir to set the tool path.
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> For example:
> $ xcrun -f clang
> /Applications/Xcode_4.6.app/Contents/Developer/Toolchains/XcodeDefault.xctoolchain/usr/bin/clang
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> -DrD-
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