Thank you Magnus. The build errors I've encountered were coming from Objective-C code behind Apple's LWAWT implementation, particularly from functions dealing with HiDPI and multi-display support (which rely on 10.7+-only API, see https://github.com/hgomez/obuildfactory/issues/3).
>From the POSIX compatibility perspective, the JDK 7 build system is completely fine (meaning an Xcode installation plus a few bits of MacPorts would be more than enough). So if I were on 10.5.x, I'd consider building an X11 Toolkit instead of the Cocoa-based one in case the number of build errors grows too high. As per JDK 8, you need a JDK 7 installed in order to build it, don't you? Regards, Andrey. Magnus Ihse Bursie wrote: > On 2013-12-02 09:52, Andrew ``Bass'' Shcheglov wrote: >> Hello, >> >> Even if you get to have make in your PATH, >> you may still be unable to build Java 7 on Mac OS X 10.5.x. > > If it's suitable to your purpuses, I'd recommend trying to build JDK 8 > instead of JDK 7. JDK 8 contains a completely new build system which > hopefully is easier to get to build on Mac OS X. Questions about > building can be addressed to build-...@openjdk.java.net. > > /Magnus
