[PATCH FOR REVIEW] OPENJDK6-18: HotSpot 23's Java code won't build with a 1.5 compiler due to @Override on interfaces.

Omair Majid omajid at redhat.com
Thu Sep 19 10:05:11 PDT 2013


Hi Andrew,

On 09/19/2013 12:12 PM, Andrew Hughes wrote:
> I discovered during bootstrapping with IcedTea that the build fails due to the use of
> @Override on interface methods (namely an implementation of Iterator).
> 
> This webrev fixes it:
> 
> http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~andrew/openjdk6/oj6-18/

The build README points out that a 6 JDK is required to build OpenJDK6
[1] and @Override for interface methods are supported by a 6 compiler.

Thanks,
Omair

[1]
http://hg.openjdk.java.net/jdk6/jdk6/raw-file/f30a5896c305/README-builds.html#bootjdk

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