>> I'm trying to build OpenJDK 8 on macOS 10.12, and having some trouble
>> getting it to accept the path to Xcode.
>> 
>>   $ ./configure 
>> "--with-xcode-path=$HOME/DevEnv/Applications/Xcode4/Xcode.app"
>> 
>>   checking Determining if we need to set DEVELOPER_DIR... yes
>> (/Users/tester/DevEnv/Applications/Xcode4/Xcode.app/Contents/Developer)
>>   checking for xcodebuild...
>> /Applications/Xcode.app/Contents/Developer/usr/bin/xcodebuild
>> 
>>   configure: error: Xcode 4 is required to build JDK 8, the version
>> found was 8.2.1. Use --with-xcode-path to specify the location of
>> Xcode 4 or make Xcode 4 active by using xcode-select.
>> 
>>   configure exiting with result code 1
>> 
>> From the DEVELOPER_DIR line, it seems like the option has been
>> accepted, but then it immediately ignores the setting for xcodebuild
>> and fails with the version being wrong...
> 
> 
> Xcode 4 does not run on 10.12, or even 10.11. Did you have this working 
> previously? Last time I tried this the toolchain was DOA on anything later 
> than 10.10.

To work around this I had to create a VM with 10.8... (which is legal as long 
as it's done on a Mac)

-DrD-

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