JDK7u40: build issue with a french VS2010 Express

Fri Oct 4 12:52:43 UTC 2013

On 2013-10-04 07:56, David Holmes wrote:
>
> Not sure how the build is supposed to account for all possible 
> languages used by the toolsets such that it can determine what the 
> version is ?? In other languages the word "version" may not even 
> appear. Doesn't this compiler have some flag to print the version? 
> (Obviously it didn't in the past hence the code but maybe it does now?)

Nah, this is Microsoft tools. They are just plain weird. Version 
information is printed as a side effect, but it looks like the string 
Francis posted (only I haven't seen it in French before).

I don't know how to solve this in JDK7, but for JDK8 there's a simple 
fix to help configure handle this. I opened 
https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-8025933 for that. Hopefully we 
won't have to support many more languages than French. Most other 
locales are slightly more pro-English. :-)

/Magnus