On 21/03/2019 15:49, Erik Joelsson wrote: > 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 >>
Yes, I generally think such version checks are a bad idea, as they only serve to hide the real errors. What are the versions of LLVM & clang on Mojave? We may be able to look at some issues on Linux with the same compiler. Thanks, -- Andrew :) Senior Free Java Software Engineer Red Hat, Inc. (http://www.redhat.com) PGP Key: ed25519/0xCFDA0F9B35964222 (hkp://keys.gnupg.net) Fingerprint = 5132 579D D154 0ED2 3E04 C5A0 CFDA 0F9B 3596 4222 https://keybase.io/gnu_andrew
