Build fails because ant compiles without -1.5

Lillian Angel langel at redhat.com
Mon Oct 1 05:09:18 PDT 2007


Andrew Haley wrote:
> Mark Wielaard writes:
>  > Hi Lillian,
>  > 
>  > On Sun, 2007-09-30 at 22:53 -0400, Lillian Angel wrote:
>  > > Mark Wielaard wrote:
>  > > > I get the same as Matthew on Fedora 7. Where the system javac is of
>  > > > course just gcj/ecj. It looks like ant doesn't pick up the configured
>  > > > icedtea javac. Any ideas how to make it so?
>  > > >   
>  > > Do you get this problem if you change the system javac to the IcedTea 
>  > > rpm installed ?
>  > 
>  > There isn't an icedtea rpm for Fedora 7 as for as I know. I could try to
>  > fetch and install the Fedora 8 test ones I guess. Will try that later
>  > today. But that wouldn't help anybody on any system that doesn't have a
>  > "system icedtea" yet, which I suspect is the majority of hackers out
>  > there.
>
> The real fix for this is to get IcedTea back into a state where we can
> bootstrap with ecj.  We're looking at it.
>   

Everyone will have to change their system javac whether we change this 
back to bootstapping with gcj or not. The use of ant is new in OpenJDK's 
b20 and it requires a compatible system jdk. It wont work with gcj.

Lillian
>   




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