Building langtools on MacOS fails with ClassReader.java:911: reference to Version is ambiguous

[Jacek Laskowski]

On Thu, Dec 9, 2010 at 2:30 PM, Maurizio Cimadamore
<maurizio.cimadamore at oracle.com> wrote:

> You might try to use OpenJDK 7 instead and see if that makes any difference
> - it could be that the OpenJDK 7 build for MacOS does not have the
> bootclasspath problem I was talking about, so that you won't be required to
> do any changes at all.

Yay! You're right - J7 did make a difference!

jacek:~/oss/lambda-langtools/make
$ ant -Dboot.java.home=/Library/Java/JavaVirtualMachines/openjdk-1.7-x86_64/Contents/Home
-Dtarget.java.home=/Library/Java/JavaVirtualMachines/openjdk-1.7-x86_64/Contents/Home
build-all-tools
...
build-all-tools:

BUILD SUCCESSFUL
Total time: 30 seconds

Thanks! I have not run any tests with the tools yet and will report
any discrepancies.

Jacek

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