Thanks Henry, that will force it to choose my referenced compiler. Still not clear whether this is intended behavior or not: is the default toolchain-type (clang, apparently) supposed to trump an explicit tools-dir? I.e., is this a bug, or just surprising but intentional?
—Dan On Apr 25, 2014, at 1:43 PM, Henry Jen <henry....@oracle.com> wrote: > For JDK9, try to specify toolchain using --with-toolchain-type=gcc > > Cheers, > Henry > > On 04/25/2014 10:41 AM, Dan Smith wrote: >> I'm using --with-tools-dir on OS X Mavericks to point to an old copy of >> Xcode 4. I configure jdk9 as follows: >> >>> make dist-clean >>> hg update -d "<2014-03-17" >>> sh configure --with-boot-jdk=$JAVA8_HOME >>> --with-tools-dir=/Applications/Xcode4.app/Contents/Developer/usr/bin >> Running generated-configure.sh >> ... >> Tools summary: >> * Boot JDK: java version "1.8.0" Java(TM) SE Runtime Environment >> (build 1.8.0-b132) Java HotSpot(TM) 64-Bit Server VM (build 25.0-b70, mixed >> mode) (at /Library/Java/JavaVirtualMachines/jdk1.8.0.jdk/Contents/Home) >> * Toolchain: gcc (GNU Compiler Collection) >> * C Compiler: Version 4.2.1 (at >> /Applications/Xcode4.app/Contents/Developer/usr/bin/gcc) >> * C++ Compiler: Version 4.2.1 (at >> /Applications/Xcode4.app/Contents/Developer/usr/bin/g++) >> ... >> >> As of March 18, this no longer works. >> >>> make dist-clean >>> hg update -d "<2014-03-18" >>> sh configure --with-boot-jdk=$JAVA8_HOME >>> --with-tools-dir=/Applications/Xcode4.app/Contents/Developer/usr/bin >> Running generated-configure.sh >> ... >> Tools summary: >> * Boot JDK: java version "1.8.0" Java(TM) SE Runtime Environment >> (build 1.8.0-b132) Java HotSpot(TM) 64-Bit Server VM (build 25.0-b70, mixed >> mode) (at /Library/Java/JavaVirtualMachines/jdk1.8.0.jdk/Contents/Home) >> * Toolchain: clang (clang/LLVM) >> * C Compiler: Version Apple LLVM version 5.1 (clang-503.0.40) (based on >> LLVM 3.4svn) Target: x86_64-apple-darwin13.1.0 Thread model: posix (at >> /usr/bin/clang) >> * C++ Compiler: Version Apple LLVM version 5.1 (clang-503.0.40) (based on >> LLVM 3.4svn) Target: x86_64-apple-darwin13.1.0 Thread model: posix (at >> /usr/bin/clang++) >> ... >> >> I appreciate the effort to get clang to work, but I should still be able to >> pick my compiler using --with-tools-dir. >> >> Should I report a bug? >> >> (Note on my motivation: I'm getting build errors due to -Wformat-nonliteral. >> I've heard this is a known issue, but I'd like to be able to work around it >> in the mean time.) >> >> —Dan >>
