Problems building OpenJDK 8 for MacOSX

[Weijun Wang]

Yes, there is a big change in jdk8, you have to use configure now.

I have Xcode 4.6 and XQuartz 2.7.4, and I can build. What does configure 
says about X11?

-Max

On 5/15/13 9:10 AM, David Clunie wrote:
> Hi all
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> I wanted to build the OpenJDK for MacOSX.
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> I was trying to follow the instructions at:
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>    https://wiki.openjdk.java.net/display/MacOSXPort/Main
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> but having fetched the code, the build step fails.
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> The make complains there is no configuration ("No configurations
> found for ...").
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> By comparison, I fetched jdk7u-dev, and a "make" of that works
> just fine, with no need for a configure step.
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> I tried "bash ./configure", but it fails with problems related
> to the X11 stuff.
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> Any advice would be appreciated, since I could spend a while on this
> and it is presumably something everyone else has already solved.
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> I have OS 10.8.3 and XQuartz 2.7.4 and Xcode 4.6.2 installed.
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> David
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