Hiya Volker , I've realised (thanx entirely to you:-) that I omitted one of the most salient facts - I was/am attempting to build 'vanilla' jdk8-b132, so your very welcome offering bodes well for things for things to come ...
Rgds , -- Dave Pointon FIAP MBCS Now I saw, tho' too late, the folly of beginning a work before we count the cost and before we we judge rightly of our strength to go thro' with it - Robinson Crusoe On 28 October 2014 19:53, Volker Simonis <volker.simo...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi Dave, > > if you're building jdk9 you can now us the newly introduced > --with-freetype-src option which was introduced with > https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-8057538. This will build the > required freetype library during the configure step. All you need is to > download and unzip the fretype sources. > > Regards, > Volker > > > On Tuesday, October 28, 2014, Dave Pointon <point...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> Hi Phil , >> >> Ah right, obviously I'm mistaking the configure step of 'checking for >> X11/extensions/shape.h... no' as being the first step in its' quest for X. >> >> Rgds , >> >> -- >> Dave Pointon FIAP MBCS >> >> Now I saw, tho' too late, the folly of beginning a work before we count >> the >> cost and before we we judge rightly of our strength to go thro' with it - >> Robinson Crusoe >> >> On 28 October 2014 19:28, Phil Race <philip.r...@oracle.com> wrote: >> >> > It isn't searching for X11. It is searching for freetype which has no X >> > dependencies. >> > freetype is needed on all platforms. >> > >> > -phil. >> > >> > >> > On 10/28/2014 12:25 PM, Dave Pointon wrote: >> > >> >> <snip> >> >> >> >> >> > >> >
