Thanks David Maybe I can do something with Mountain Lion running in a virtual machine. I’ll investigate that.
William On 9 Dec 2013, at 6:26pm, David DeHaven <david.deha...@oracle.com> wrote: > >> Back in September when I had Mountain Lion (OS X 10.8) I was able to build >> my own version of OpenJDK 7 Update 40. >> >> Now I have Mavericks (OS X 10.9) and it fails to build Hotspot with the >> error: >> >>> clang: error: argument unused during compilation: '-fcheck-new’ >> >> If I comment out the setting of this value in >> hotspot/make/bsd/makefiles/gcc.make I get other errors like: >> >>> hotspot/src/share/vm/adlc/archDesc.cpp:335:35: error: '&&' within '||' >>> [-Werror,-Wlogical-op-parentheses] >> >> What do I have to do to make this compile? >> >> I know very little about C programming. Any help will be greatly appreciated. >> >> Best regards >> >> William > > Building JDK 8 with Xcode 5 is still a work in progress, I don't expect that > effort to be backported to 7u so you might need to scrape up a copy of Xcode > 4.6 to build with. The big issue is Xcode 5 does not include gcc and 7u does > not build with clang without significant changes. > > -DrD- >
