Fwd: indexing JDK 10 from code running on Java 8

[Roman Shevchenko]

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Ah, I see, thank you.

I build Amber, and chose 9 as a boot JDK almost unconsciously. Yes, it
works fine with 8.


On Tue, Oct 10, 2017 at 12:36 PM, Alan Bateman <Alan.Bateman at oracle.com>
wrote:

> On 10/10/2017 10:05, Roman Shevchenko wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> at the moment, IDEA is unable to index JDK 10 classes because
>> lib/jrtf-s.jar is incompatible with Java 8. Migrating IDEA to Java 9 is
>> one
>> possible solution, but I'm afraid it will take more time than there is
>> left
>> before 18.3 nightly builds will start to appear. What other options do we
>> have?
>>
> Something fishy here, what JDK 10 (or 18.3) build is this and which boot
> JDK did you use? The changes to move the jdk10/jdk10 to use a JDK 9 as the
> boot JDK have not been done yet. In the mean-time, if you use JDK 8 as the
> boot JDK then the jrt-fs.jar in the JDK 10 build should be usable with JDK
> 8.
>
> -Alan
>