Problems with non Oracle boot JDKs and class file version 52

[Mike Duigou]

For non cross compile situations the answer would be to use the target vm. 
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On 2012-12-06, at 15:35, David Holmes <david.holmes at oracle.com> wrote:

> I've now seen two people encounter problems trying to build Profiles using the new build system, when their boot JDK is the locally installed IcedTea openjdk distribution (7 in one case and 6 in another).
> 
> The error occurs creating jar files eg
> 
> Creating resources.jar
> Error occurred during initialization of VM
> java/lang/UnsupportedClassVersionError: sun/misc/PostVMInitHook :
> Unsupported major.minor version 52.0
> 
> Are we using bootclasspath tricks that only work on Oracle JDK?
> 
> David
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