Compile error for transitive dependencies

Alan Bateman Alan.Bateman at oracle.com
Fri Dec 30 05:58:55 UTC 2016


On 29/12/2016 09:44, Nicolai Parlog wrote:

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>   Hi!
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> If module A requires B and B requires C, A can not be compiled without
> C on the module path.
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> 	error: module not found: C
> 	1 error
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> This is a little irritating but maybe it was done on purpose to ensure
> fidelity across all phases.
This need to be looked at. At one point then it was possible to compile 
A without C being observable (assuming that B `requires C`, not B 
`requires transitive C`). I'm sure Jan or Jon will comment on this, I 
believe the current behavior came about as part of supporting automatic 
modules.

-Alan


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