Building OpenJDK on Mavericks (OS X 10.9)

[David DeHaven]

That seems to be the best solution if you have Xcode 5 installed, just using xcode-select doesn't always work.

-DrD-

> What I did is to save a copy of usr dir inside Xcode 4 and run
> 
>  bash configure --with-tools-dir=/saved/xcode4/usr/bin/ ...
> 
> --Max
> 
> On 12/10/13, 22:38, Staffan Larsen wrote:
>> 
>> 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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