Failure building openjfx 9-dev against jdk9 build fails

[Kevin Rushforth]

We still use JDK 8u40 as our boot JDK for building FX 9-dev, but it 
should work against JDK 9-dev as well.

Did you remember to remove jfxrt.jar from your JDK 9? The build.gradle 
script doesn't know to look for it in $JDK_HOME/lib and warn you if you 
forget -- it only looks in $JDK_HOME/jre/lib/ext which is where it is in 
JDK 8.

-- Kevin


Sven Reimers wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I get the following error trying to compile latest 9-dev from openjfx
> against latest jdk9:
>
> :swing:compileJava
> [ant:javac]
> /Users/sven/oss/openjfx/9-dev/modules/swing/src/main/java/javafx/embed/swing/FXDnD.java:480:
> error: cannot find symbol
> [ant:javac]                     if (ctx != null) ctx.removeNotify();
> [ant:javac]                                         ^
> [ant:javac]   symbol:   method removeNotify()
> [ant:javac]   location: variable ctx of type DropTargetContext
> [ant:javac]
> /Users/sven/oss/openjfx/9-dev/modules/swing/src/main/java/javafx/embed/swing/FXDnD.java:489:
> error: cannot find symbol
> [ant:javac]
> ctx.addNotify(FXDropTargetContextPeer.this);
> [ant:javac]                            ^
> [ant:javac]   symbol:   method addNotify(FXDnD.FXDropTargetContextPeer)
> [ant:javac]   location: variable ctx of type DropTargetContext
> [ant:javac]
> /Users/sven/oss/openjfx/9-dev/modules/swing/src/main/java/javafx/embed/swing/FXDnD.java:511:
> error: cannot find symbol
> [ant:javac]                     if (ctx != null) ctx.removeNotify();
> [ant:javac]                                         ^
> [ant:javac]   symbol:   method removeNotify()
> [ant:javac]   location: variable ctx of type DropTargetContext
> [ant:javac]
> /Users/sven/oss/openjfx/9-dev/modules/swing/src/main/java/javafx/embed/swing/FXDnD.java:520:
> error: cannot find symbol
> [ant:javac]                     if (ctx != null) ctx.removeNotify();
> [ant:javac]                                         ^
> [ant:javac]   symbol:   method removeNotify()
> [ant:javac]   location: variable ctx of type DropTargetContext
> [ant:javac] Note: Some input files use or override a deprecated API.
> [ant:javac] Note: Recompile with -Xlint:deprecation for details.
> [ant:javac] Note:
> /Users/sven/oss/openjfx/9-dev/modules/swing/src/main/java/javafx/embed/swing/FXDnD.java
> uses unchecked or unsafe operations.
> [ant:javac] Note: Recompile with -Xlint:unchecked for details.
> [ant:javac] 4 errors
>
> Reason seems to be the change
>
> http://hg.openjdk.java.net/jdk9/jdk9/jdk/rev/e1888730a57e
>
> Could not find the issue in the JBS - maybe may jira fu was not good
> enough...
>
> So should we build 9-dev against jdk8u-60?
>
> Seems I must have missed something
>
> -Sven
>
>