Java compiler API not supporting non-standard options such as -XDignore.symbol.file?

[Martin Buchholz]

On Fri, Oct 11, 2013 at 5:45 PM, Peter Niederwieser <pniederw at gmail.com>wrote:

> Martin,
>
> thanks for chiming in. I'm not quite sure how your remark relates to what
> I said. While it's true that it isn't currently possible to point Gradle's
> compiler API integration to an external JDK, this will be possible in the
> future. And it's easy to add because we can already run compilation in a
> separate JVM. But unlike when using the command-line compiler, the same JVM
> can potentially be used for many compilation jobs, which can speed up
> builds significantly.
>
>
AFAIK, you can only run one version of a javac inside a given JDK, and if
there's a version mismatch, then only via -Xbootclasspath/p:
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