>> 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-