Boot JDK requirements for 8 ?

[Kelly O'Hair]

I am pretty sure this has been or is fixed in jdk8/build forest.

-kto

On Dec 7, 2012, at 11:11 AM, Bharadwaj Yadavalli wrote:

> 
> I also see the same message while building OpenJDK on Mac 10.7.5. I specified
> 7u9 as my boot JDK while running configure. I then ran 'make NEWBUILD=true all' to build.
> I made sure that there is no other JDK installed on the machine.
> 
> Does anyone know the reason (and consequently a fix) for this?
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Bharadwaj
> 
> On Tue Dec 4 16:37:41 PST 2012,//David Holmes wrote:
> > This is a build-infra build using profiles forest but I think is a
> > general issue :)
> >
> > I use a JDK 7 as a boot JDK. I've noticed that now javac produces
> > version 52 classes files the build produces lots of these "warnings"
> >
> > Generating headers for jdk base classes
> > Compiling 1 files for BUILD_ALTCLASSES_JAR
> > /java/embedded/users/dh198349/profiles/builds/b66/se-linux-i586-ea/jdk/classes/java/lang/Integer.class: 
> > major version 52 is newer than 51, the highest major version supported
> > by this compiler.
> >       It is recommended that the compiler be upgraded.
> >
> > I'm not sure exactly where this comes from.
> >
> > David
> 
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