ant 1.7.1 and make 3.81

[Andrew John Hughes]

On 28 March 2010 16:34, Dalibor Topic <Dalibor.Topic at sun.com> wrote:
> 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?
>

Sorry, I haven't seen the issue myself nor do I know what's in the
various Ant packages.  I've pointed Pavel at this thread; maybe he'll
know more.

>> 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?
>

1.8 has its own issues, as have been posted on the list too.  I think
blocking anything but 1.8 is far too drastic, especially in the
immediate future.

> cheers,
> dalibor topic
>
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