ant 1.7.1 and make 3.81

[Dalibor Topic]

Andrew John Hughes wrote:
> On 26 March 2010 16:06, Kelly O'Hair <kelly.ohair at oracle.com> wrote:
>> It appears that a problem with ant 1.7.1 can potentially impact the open jdk
>> builds, see
>> https://issues.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=43114 for more
>> information.
>> The potential for missing package-info.class files seems high, and the
>> latest jaxws
>> sources run into this problem.
>>
> 
> We've seen this issue on Fedora 10 and 11.

Since you don't list Fedora 12, I'm curious - has the corresponding patch 
from ant been backported to the Fedora 12 ant packages?
 
> Can we not just blacklist 1.7.1 as suggested in the bug?  Personally,
> you may not want to move to 1.7.0 but forcing 1.8 is going to be
> difficult as it's not yet in enough distros.  That said, by the time
> this filters through to OpenJDK6, it may be.
> 
> Is there no way of working around 1.7.1 on our side?

I assume the distributions that ship a patched ant 1.7.1 package could 
change the check to accept 1.7.1. Would that work?

cheers,
dalibor topic

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