[JSR308] Building on a Mac

[Niko Matsakis]

Has anyone successfully built the langtools or checker code on a Mac?   
I am attempting to build against SoyLatte, but I am not sure if that  
will work.  I'm not really clear on what the dependencies are: there  
seem to be mentions of requiring OpenJDK 1.7, 1.6, and 1.5 at various  
points, so I'm not really sure what version of the JDK is required for  
what.

In any case, when I follow the instructions for building langtools  
from source, I end up with a javac.jar file that contains only a  
manifest and no actual classes.  The ant output includes such warnings  
as:

       [jar] Warning: skipping jar archive /.../langtools/build/ 
bootstrap/lib/javac.jar because no files were included.

where ... is a lengthy pass that was omitted.

I have also attempted to load the NetBeans projects and build from  
there, but they end up with the same error.  Any advice on what might  
be causing this problem?


regards,
Niko Matsakis