[icedtea] javac is not javap / -1.5 option

[Casey Marshall]

On 7/2/07, Lillian Angel <langel at redhat.com> wrote:
> Casey Marshall wrote:
> > Hi.
> >
> > I can't seem to register with icedtea's bugzilla, so I'm sending this
> > message here, so people involved my see it.
> >
> > I've been trying to get icedtea compiled on Ubuntu Edgy, and noticed
> > so far that the Makefile copies 'javac' to
> > 'bootstrap/jdk1.6.0/bin/javap', not the 'javap' script that's included.
> This was fixed almost immediately after the typo was committed :)
>

Heh, lucky me ;-)

> > Also, it uses the option -1.5 when compiling the CompileProperties
> > program, which won't work for javac. I *think* "-source 1.5 -target
> > 1.5" will work here instead, right?
>
> What problem are you running into? Are you having problems building
> IcedTea? In some cases, all 3 options are used.
>

If I use Sun's javac, the option "-1.5" doesn't work; this means the
class CompileProperties fails to build, and properties files can't be
converted to classes.

I switched to using a JDK7 binary snapshot to build (instead of JDK5).
I'm not sure if that version accepts the "-1.5" flag or not.

Thanks.