Starting today, if I configure with Xcode 4 on OS X 10.9, I can no longer build jdk9/dev/hotspot (changeset b329ff11a78c).
make dist-clean sh configure --with-tools-dir=/Applications/Xcode4.app/Contents/Developer/usr/bin --with-toolchain-type=gcc --with-boot-jdk=$JAVA8_HOME make images ... cc1plus: warnings being treated as errors In file included from ../generated/tracefiles/traceEventClasses.hpp:19, from /Users/dan/Dev/jdk/jdk9/hotspot/src/share/vm/trace/tracing.hpp:28, from /Users/dan/Dev/jdk/jdk9/hotspot/src/share/vm/opto/compile.hpp:43, from /Users/dan/Dev/jdk/jdk9/hotspot/src/share/vm/opto/node.hpp:29, from /Users/dan/Dev/jdk/jdk9/hotspot/src/share/vm/opto/addnode.hpp:28, from /Users/dan/Dev/jdk/jdk9/hotspot/src/share/vm/precompiled/precompiled.hpp:252: /Users/dan/Dev/jdk/jdk9/hotspot/src/share/vm/trace/traceStream.hpp: In member function ‘void TraceStream::print_val(const char*, s8)’: /Users/dan/Dev/jdk/jdk9/hotspot/src/share/vm/trace/traceStream.hpp:69: warning: format ‘%lld’ expects type ‘long long int’, but argument 4 has type ‘s8’ Fortunately, I can now cleanly build with Xcode 5: make dist-clean sh configure --with-boot-jdk=$JAVA8_HOME make images However, I don't know if it is intentional that Xcode 4 support is being dropped. —Dan