Hi,

the Mac experts will probably find my question to be silly and start laughing… 
but nevertheless, I’m asking it here 😊

I was looking into building OpenJDK 8 today on my developer Mac, which runs 
Mojave (10.14.3). configure immediately tells me, I need Xcode 4. So I was 
trying to install xcode 4.6.3 – but seems this wouldn’t run on Mojave. What can 
I do?

Ok, on the build requirements page [0], the requirements are documented to be 
MacOS 10.7 (Lion). However, I’m thinking, since OpenJDK 8 is not completely 
legacy yet, at least a developer build should be possible on a current 
operating system. I would accept having to install the oldest running Xcode 
compiler for sure, but not at all being able to build on a recent MacOS is not 
good.

So, question to the experts: Will it be impossible to bump the build 
environment because changes would be too complex? Or is there a solution to 
this which I’m just not aware of?

Thank you and Best regards
Christoph

[0] https://wiki.openjdk.java.net/display/Build/Supported+Build+Platforms

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