langtools ant 1.8.0 fix

Jonathan Gibbons jonathan.gibbons at oracle.com
Mon Mar 29 14:28:27 PDT 2010


Joe Darcy wrote:
> Kelly O'Hair wrote:
>>
>> Should I apply this change to openjdk6?
>>
>> 6938326: Use of "ant -diagnostics" a problem with ant 1.8.0, exit 
>> code 1 now
>> http://hg.openjdk.java.net/jdk7/tl/langtools/rev/de6375751eb7
>>
>> -kto
>
> Is there no good version of ant?  Others might ask the same of the JDK 
> ;-)
>
> The change seems okay to me, but I'd like to hear Andrew's opinion 
> before it goes back.
>
> -Joe
Joe,

By itself, this fix is non-controversial.  It says, "if you use Ant 
1.8.0, don't let Ant crash the build".  It does not mandate the use of 
Ant 1.8.0, which is a separate issue.

-- Jon


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