I installed XQuartz, rebooted, and re-ran configure. Got the exact same error. Seems the path to freetype in XQuartz is not fixed.
Scott On Thu, Jan 14, 2016 at 3:01 AM, Erik Joelsson <[email protected]> wrote: > I believe freetype is needed on Macosx so if that is missing in > README-builds.html, that's a bug. > > I'm not a regular Macosx user so I might remember this wrong, but you can > get freetype from different sources. One is to install XQuartz. Another is > to get it from homebrew. There was some issue with Macosx 10.11 and the > path to freetype in XQuartz but I think that should be fixed now. > > /Erik > > > On 2016-01-13 22:39, Scott Palmer wrote: > >> There was a recent thread about JDK-8145206: Configure broken on Macosx >> >> I just attempted to bulid jdk9 on OS X 10.11.2 and configure failed with: >> >> configure: error: Could not find freetype! >> /Users/me/dev/openjdk9.common/autoconf/generated-configure.sh: line 82: 5: >> Bad file descriptor >> >> >> Checking README-builds.html I see that Freetype is listed as something >> that >> is needed for Linux and Solaris, but not Mac OS X. >> >> What is broken, configure or the System Setup instructions? >> >> Thanks, >> >> Scott >> > >
