Problems with non Oracle boot JDKs and class file version 52

[Jonathan Gibbons]

On 12/07/2012 11:39 PM, David Holmes wrote:
>
> It is a good point that this line does not make sense. But without 
> this bootclasspath entry the closed class won't be found at all - so 
> we'd just fail with a NoClassDefFoundError wouldn't we?
>
> Erik: this does seem to be a bug in the build rule.
>
> Thanks,
> David 

David,

Who needs to find it?   I suspect javac needs it more than the 
underlying java command.  If javac needs it, the option should be 
*after* the reference to javac.jar, so that the option is read by javac, 
not java.

-- Jon