Using Intellij IDEA with current JDK

[Maurizio Cimadamore]

Whoops - forgot

[1] - https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-8193503 
<https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-8193503>


On 17/01/18 21:15, Maurizio Cimadamore wrote:
> Hi Andrew,
> this is a bug in IntelliJ - not sure if it's already fixed in the 
> latest version - you might want to try to update in case you have not 
> done it.
>
> The reason is that IntelliJ used to check for the presence of javah to 
> see if a JDK home was valid - since javah was removed [1], that 
> detection started to act up.
>
> One workaround is to put an empty file called 'javah' in your JDK bin 
> folder :-)
>
> Maurizio
>
>
> On 17/01/18 16:15, Andrew Haley wrote:
>> I now always get "The selected directory is not a valid home for JDK".
>> when selecting the JDK home directory.
>>
>> Does anybody have any idea how to persuade IDEA that we need to work
>> on the current top-of-tree JDK?  Thanks.
>>
>