Looks like I'm a little bit too close to the bleeding edge, but I wonder if anyone's looking into cleaning up building on OS X Yosemite (10.10).
Building jdk9 mostly works fine, but I've had issues with FreeType. ---- Problem #1: > make dist-clean > sh configure --with-boot-jdk=$JAVA8_HOME ... configure: error: Could not find freetype! configure exiting with result code 1 (I tried re-installing XQuartz (updated to 2.7.7), in response to this or a similar error. Not sure if that made any difference, but I still get an error.) Workaround is to point directly to my X11 directories: > sh configure --with-boot-jdk=$JAVA8_HOME > --with-freetype-include=/usr/X11/include/freetype2 > --with-freetype-lib=/usr/X11/lib ---- Problem #2: > make images ... xattr: No such file: /Users/dan/Dev/jdk/jdk9/build/macosx-x86_64-normal-server-release/jdk/lib/libfreetype.dylib.6 ... make[3]: *** No rule to make target `/Users/dan/Dev/jdk/jdk9/build/macosx-x86_64-normal-server-release/jdk/lib/libfreetype.dylib.6', needed by `/Users/dan/Dev/jdk/jdk9/build/macosx-x86_64-normal-server-release/images/j2re-image/lib/libfreetype.dylib.6'. Stop. make[3]: *** Waiting for unfinished jobs.... make[2]: *** [images] Error 2 make[1]: *** [main-wrapper] Error 2 make: *** [images] Error 2 If I skip the 'images' step, the build succeeds the first time (so I do get usable output, fortunately) but subsequently fails with: > make ... cp: symlink: libfreetype.6.dylib: File exists make[3]: *** [/Users/dan/Dev/jdk/jdk9/build/macosx-x86_64-normal-server-release/jdk/lib/libfreetype.dylib.6] Error 1 make[2]: *** [java.desktop-copy] Error 2 make[2]: *** Waiting for unfinished jobs.... make[1]: *** [main-wrapper] Error 2 make: *** [default] Error 2 I found /usr/X11/lib/libfreetype.6.dylib, and tried linking from or copying to /usr/X11/lib/libfreetype.dylib.6, but that didn't help. —Dan
