JavaC "-release" option no longer working?

[Remi Forax]

Hi Uwe,
Most options of javac now use the GNU style,
so it's --release instead of -release.

cheers,
Rémi

----- Mail original -----
> De: "Uwe Schindler" <uschindler at apache.org>
> À: "rory odonnell" <rory.odonnell at oracle.com>, "Dalibor Topic" <dalibor.topic at oracle.com>, "Balchandra Vaidya"
> <balchandra.vaidya at oracle.com>, "Muneer Kolarkunnu" <abdul.kolarkunnu at oracle.com>
> Cc: compiler-dev at openjdk.java.net
> Envoyé: Lundi 19 Septembre 2016 15:05:22
> Objet: JavaC "-release" option no longer working?

> Hi,
> 
> The Lucene team is already using the new "-release" option instead of
> "-source"/"-target" where applicable (JDK 9+), to allow real cross-compiling.
> Unfortunately, it is no longer working when we upgraded from build 134 to build
> 136 last night on our Jenkins server:
> 
> http://jenkins.thetaphi.de/job/Lucene-Solr-master-Linux/17849/console
> 
> compile-core:
>    [mkdir] Created dir:
>    /home/jenkins/workspace/Lucene-Solr-master-Linux/lucene/build/core/classes/java
>    [javac] Compiling 773 source files to
>    /home/jenkins/workspace/Lucene-Solr-master-Linux/lucene/build/core/classes/java
>    [javac] javac: invalid flag: -release
>    [javac] Usage: javac <options> <source files>
>    [javac] use --help for a list of possible options
> 
> Is this an intended change - what's wrong? I did not see any log entries?
> 
> I reverted back to build 134 for now.
> 
> Uwe
> 
> -----
> Uwe Schindler
> uschindler at apache.org
> ASF Member, Apache Lucene PMC / Committer
> Bremen, Germany
> http://lucene.apache.org/