JavaC "-release" option no longer working?

[Uwe Schindler]

Hi,

What is the JDK bugtracker issue about this? I am asking because I did not see any changelog entry about this, otherwise I would have figured it out. I don't have build 136 on my local machine yet, so I just posted what Jenkins was complaining about!

Uwe

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Uwe Schindler
uschindler at apache.org 
ASF Member, Apache Lucene PMC / Committer
Bremen, Germany
http://lucene.apache.org/
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Remi Forax [mailto:forax at univ-mlv.fr]
> Sent: Monday, September 19, 2016 3:24 PM
> To: Uwe Schindler <uschindler at apache.org>
> Cc: 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>; compiler-dev at openjdk.java.net
> Subject: Re: JavaC "-release" option no longer working?
> 
> 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/