langtools ant 1.8.0 fix

Kelly O'Hair kelly.ohair at oracle.com
Mon Mar 29 14:58:20 PDT 2010


On Mar 29, 2010, at 2:28 PM, Jonathan Gibbons wrote:

> 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

Exacterly. ;^)

This change just allows ant 1.8.0 to be used.

-kto


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