Building OpenJDK on Mavericks (OS X 10.9)

[Staffan Larsen]

On 10 dec 2013, at 14:48, William Moore <wmoore40 at gmail.com> wrote:

> Thanks David
> 
> Maybe I can do something with Mountain Lion running in a virtual machine. I’ll investigate that.

Having multiple XCode versions installed is also a work-around.

/Staffan

> 
> William
> 
> On 9 Dec 2013, at 6:26pm, David DeHaven <david.dehaven at oracle.com> wrote:
> 
>> 
>>> 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-
>> 
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