Problems with JavacTool & -L

[Alan Bateman]

On 28/12/2011 10:10, Jonathan Gibbons wrote:
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>> Jigsaw JDK is built using jigsaw langtools on top of JDK 7 as the 
>> boot JDK.  So I expect it should work to run on top of JRE 7.    How 
>> do you run it?
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> This *may* be a side-effect of the above bug. Mandy is right in what 
> she says, but that applies to javac as used to build and rebuild JDK.
Given that Jesse is trying to use the Jigsaw langtools with jdk7 then it 
might be worth explaining that this can only be used to the build the 
JDK. For NetBeans (and probably other IDEs) then I assume that it will 
require a plugin or some means to talk to a JDK8 server that use the 
module system.

-Alan