Building OpenJDK on Mavericks (OS X 10.9)

[David DeHaven]

> Back in September when I had Mountain Lion (OS X 10.8) I was able to build my own version of OpenJDK 7 Update 40.
> 
> Now I have Mavericks (OS X 10.9) and it fails to build Hotspot with the error:
> 
>> clang: error: argument unused during compilation: '-fcheck-new’
> 
> If I comment out the setting of this value in hotspot/make/bsd/makefiles/gcc.make I get other errors like:
> 
>> hotspot/src/share/vm/adlc/archDesc.cpp:335:35: error: '&&' within '||' [-Werror,-Wlogical-op-parentheses]
> 
> What do I have to do to make this compile?
> 
> I know very little about C programming. Any help will be greatly appreciated.
> 
> Best regards
> 
> William

Building JDK 8 with Xcode 5 is still a work in progress, I don't expect that effort to be backported to 7u so you might need to scrape up a copy of Xcode 4.6 to build with. The big issue is Xcode 5 does not include gcc and 7u does not build with clang without significant changes.

-DrD-