Problems with non Oracle boot JDKs and class file version 52

[David Holmes]

On 9/12/2012 1:29 AM, Jonathan Gibbons wrote:
> 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.

I've no idea who needs to find it - it is whichever class is trying to 
load it.

David
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> -- Jon