<AWT Dev> Can't compile (external) code against sun.awt.event package?

[Dr Andrew John Hughes]

On 17:35 Wed 28 Sep     , Omair Majid wrote:
> On 09/28/2011 05:05 PM, Roman Kennke wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > I am trying to compile the Cacio project against vanilla OpenJDK7. One
> > of the classes references IgnorePaintEvent. This class cannot be
> > compiled:
> >
> > [INFO] Compilation failure
> >
> > /home/roman/src/hg/caciocavallo/shared/src/main/java/sun/awt/peer/cacio/CacioComponentPeer.java:[70,20] error: package sun.awt.event does not exist
> > /home/roman/src/hg/caciocavallo/shared/src/main/java/sun/awt/peer/cacio/CacioComponentPeer.java:[726,20] error: cannot find symbol
> >
> >
> >
> > It used to work when I explicitely set the bootclasspath to an OpenJDK
> > build that I just built before (snippet from ant script:
> >
> >          <javac srcdir="${dir.src.shared.classes}"
> >                 destdir="${dir.build.shared.classes}"
> >                 bootclasspath="${openjdk}/classes"
> >                 debug="${compile.debug}"
> >                  />
> >
> > However, now that JDK7 is out I was thinking it would be great to
> > compile against a vanilla OpenJDK7 rt.jar. I verified that the class is
> > in that rt.jar and that I am really using the JDK7 javac. I wonder why
> > javac cannot find it. Cacio code uses a lot of other internal classes
> > (sun.awt.AppContext, sun.awt.SunToolkit, etc etc) and it only issues
> > warnings about those. I think I must be missing something...
> >
> 
> Try setting the property "ignore.symbol.file" to true [1][2].
> 
> HTH,
> Omair
> 
> [1] http://bugs.sun.com/view_bug.do?bug_id=6544224
> [2] http://andrew-haley.livejournal.com/695.html

Or just delete lib/ct.sym and save 16mb in the process.
-- 
Andrew :)

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