I don't think anyone has tried. Just removing the check in configure
should be simple enough, but I suspect there will be lots of follow-on
issues.
/Erik
On 2019-03-21 03:05, Langer, Christoph wrote:
Hi,
the Mac experts will probably find my question to be silly and start laughing…
but nevertheless, I’m asking it here 😊
I was looking into building OpenJDK 8 today on my developer Mac, which runs
Mojave (10.14.3). configure immediately tells me, I need Xcode 4. So I was
trying to install xcode 4.6.3 – but seems this wouldn’t run on Mojave. What can
I do?
Ok, on the build requirements page [0], the requirements are documented to be
MacOS 10.7 (Lion). However, I’m thinking, since OpenJDK 8 is not completely
legacy yet, at least a developer build should be possible on a current
operating system. I would accept having to install the oldest running Xcode
compiler for sure, but not at all being able to build on a recent MacOS is not
good.
So, question to the experts: Will it be impossible to bump the build
environment because changes would be too complex? Or is there a solution to
this which I’m just not aware of?
Thank you and Best regards
Christoph
[0] https://wiki.openjdk.java.net/display/Build/Supported+Build+Platforms
