On May 28, 2014, at 23:43, David DeHaven <david.deha...@oracle.com> wrote:
> >> I just installed a brand new Mavericks and go straight to 'bash configure' >> for jdk9/dev. A dialog pops out asking me to choose between installing Xcode >> and downloading command line tools. I choose the latter and after they are >> installed I run configure again, and it shows >> >> Failed to determine Xcode version. > > This looks like a bug. How did you run configure? Just "bash configure --with-boot-jdk=/myjdk". Do you mean xcodebuild should not be called? > > >> Looking into common/autoconf/toolchain.m4 and it's running xcodebuild to >> find out the version. Since this is Mavericks I think it should be 5. So I >> write my own xcodebuild that shows itself as Xcode 5 and configure passed. >> >> And the build runs fine (after installing XQuartz). > > You no longer need XQuartz: > http://hg.openjdk.java.net/jdk9/dev/jdk/rev/56024e323104 Oh, guess my repo is not synced. > > >> So why is xcodebuild necessary? What must I install Xcode to build openjdk? >> I can see 'gcc --version' showing 'LLVM' and '5.1' words also. > > xcodebuild is used to find components that are necessary to build. GCC is no > longer installed with Xcode, they switched to clang, which is why we need to > determine what version of Xcode is installed. IIRC, gcc is just a wrapper for any compiler. At least it's on my system and 'gcc -version' shows LLVM. On the other hand, it looks like xcodebuild is not always installed. Thanks Max > > -DrD- >
