Jigsaw forest now includes JDK 7 M5

[Andrew John Hughes]

2009/11/12 Jonathan Gibbons <Jonathan.Gibbons at sun.com>:
> Andrew John Hughes wrote:
>
> 2009/11/11 Mark Reinhold <mr at sun.com>:
>
>
> If perchance you want to do a boot-cycle build, be sure to apply the
> attached patch to the jaxws repo first.
>
> - Mark
>
> --
>
> diff --git a/build.properties b/build.properties
> --- a/build.properties
> +++ b/build.properties
> @@ -34,6 +34,9 @@
>  # one of the standard user build.properties files (see build.xml)
>  javac.jar=${bootstrap.dir}/lib/javac.jar
>
> +# jaxws needs tools.jar too, for the old com.sun.mirror (APT) API
> +tools.jar=${java.home}/../lib/tools.jar
> +
>  # options for the <javac> tasks used to compile the tools
>  javac.source = 7
>  javac.target = 7
> diff --git a/build.xml b/build.xml
> --- a/build.xml
> +++ b/build.xml
> @@ -108,6 +108,8 @@
>            depends="init, -init-src-dirs, -build-prep">
>         <javac fork="true"
>              destdir="${build.classes.dir}"
> +             includeAntRuntime="false"
> +             classpath="${build.classes.dir}:${tools.jar}"
>              memoryInitialSize="${javac.memoryInitialSize}"
>              memoryMaximumSize="${javac.memoryMaximumSize}"
>              source="${javac.source}"
>
>
>
> Wouldn't using ${output.dir}/../langtools/build/classes be better?
> The above assumes the bootstrap JDK has non-standard (com.sun)
> classes.
>
>
> I think Kelly is putting a slightly different variant of the patch into TL.
> That funky path you suggest is definitely not better, since it assumes far
> too much about the structure within ${output.dir}.
>
> -- Jon
>
>
>

Is there a better way of locating where the langtools build dropped
its classes?  I think relying on the bootstrap JDK having some
Sun-specific classes is even worse.  The better long-term solution
would be to just use the standardised annotation API in jaxws.
-- 
Andrew :-)

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