That seems to be the best solution if you have Xcode 5 installed, just using xcode-select doesn't always work.
-DrD- > What I did is to save a copy of usr dir inside Xcode 4 and run > > bash configure --with-tools-dir=/saved/xcode4/usr/bin/ ... > > --Max > > On 12/10/13, 22:38, Staffan Larsen wrote: >> >> On 10 dec 2013, at 14:48, William Moore <wmoor...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >>> Thanks David >>> >>> Maybe I can do something with Mountain Lion running in a virtual machine. >>> I’ll investigate that. >> >> Having multiple XCode versions installed is also a work-around. >> >> /Staffan >> >>> >>> 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- >>>> >>> >>
