JavaC "-release" option no longer working?

[Andrey Nazarov]

Hi,

Javac now uses GNU style options.

Try --release.

see javac --help


--Andrey


On 19.09.2016 16:05, Uwe Schindler wrote:
> 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
>
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> Uwe Schindler
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>
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