Failure building openjfx 9-dev against jdk9 build fails

[Kevin Rushforth]

You got the correct commit. I even dug up the e-mail thread where I 
raised this as a concern.

-- Kevin, feeling rather embarrassed to have completely let this one slip...


Sven Reimers wrote:
> Thanks... seems it is broken for some time already, if I got the 
> correct commit...
>
> It was my own local jdk build - I wanted to build openjdk from source 
> and then openjfx on top of that to work around this issue..
>
> Falling back to use a stripped down jdk8 now.. (building JDK 8 on a 
> Mac with a newer XCode gets messy, so I thought I gor for 9)
>
> -Sven
>
> On Fri, Aug 28, 2015 at 11:00 PM, Kevin Rushforth 
> <kevin.rushforth at oracle.com <mailto:kevin.rushforth at oracle.com>> wrote:
>
>     I just tried it -- it's a real failure, which is odd since I
>     thought I had built with JDK 9 more recently than that. I will
>     file a bug.
>
>     -- Kevin
>
>
>
>     Kevin Rushforth wrote:
>
>         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
>
>              
>
>
>
>
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