There's some changes in 9 that should be backported to 8u so developers on 10.9 will be able to build. JDK-8043340 (that I just pushed to 9) is one, but it's dependent on at least one other change.
-DrD- > Attempting to build JDK 8 on Mavericks I found the same problem: > > $ sh configure --with-debug-level=fastdebug > --with-tools-dir=/Applications/Xcode4.app/Contents/Developer/usr/bin > […] > checking for gcc... /Applications/Xcode4.app/Contents/Developer/usr/bin/gcc > configure: Resolving CC (as > /Applications/Xcode4.app/Contents/Developer/usr/bin/gcc) failed, using > /Applications/Xcode4.app/Contents/Developer/usr/bin/gcc directly. > checking resolved symbolic links for CC... > /Applications/Xcode4.app/Contents/Developer/usr/llvm-gcc-4.2/bin/llvm-gcc-4.2 > checking if CC is disguised ccache... no, keeping CC > configure: Using i686-apple-darwin11-llvm-gcc-4.2 (GCC) 4.2.1 (Based on Apple > Inc. build 5658) (LLVM build) C compiler version 2336.11.00) (located at > /Applications/Xcode4.app/Contents/Developer/usr/llvm-gcc-4.2/bin/llvm-gcc-4.2) > checking whether the C compiler works... no > configure: error: in `/Users/bpb/Work/CoreLibs/jdk/jdk8u-dev': > configure: error: C compiler cannot create executables > See `config.log' for more details > configure exiting with result code 77 > > Thanks, > > Brina >> On 04/30/2014 12:42 AM, Erik Joelsson wrote: >>> >>> On 2014-04-30 00:51, Dan Smith wrote: >>>> 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? >>> I think this is intentional, but it could certainly still be discussed. >>> I'm surprised clang is already picked as default however. Perhaps there >>> is something else that's not working as intended causing this. >> >> We use 'xcodebuild -version' to determine xcode version, and choose >> clang as default after 5.0. >> >> http://hg.openjdk.java.net/jdk9/jdk9/rev/77c150b417d8 >> >> --with-tools-dir specify where to find the toolchain, in this case, we >> would hope it can correctly identify it's xcode 4, but it's not. >> >> Cheers, >> Henry >
