javadoc JDK 8 build dependency

[Jonathan Gibbons]

Werner,

Can you point out where you are using reflection to work around the 
compile-time issue?

-- Jon

On 04/30/2012 10:21 PM, Werner Dietl wrote:
> Dear fellow type annotations developers,
>
> currently building the JDK documentation fails, because javadoc now
> uses the ElementTypes.TYPE_USE field. We prevent the static compile
> error by looking up the field via reflection; however, we also need to
> adapt the classpath at execution time to use the correct version of
> ElementTypes.
> I propose the following simple change:
>
>
> diff --git a/make/common/shared/Defs-java.gmk b/make/common/shared/Defs-java.gmk
> --- a/make/common/shared/Defs-java.gmk
> +++ b/make/common/shared/Defs-java.gmk
> @@ -178,7 +178,7 @@
>   		"-Xbootclasspath/p:$(JAVAH_JAR)$(CLASSPATH_SEPARATOR)$(JAVAC_JAR)"  \
>   		-jar $(JAVAH_JAR) $(JAVAHFLAGS)
>     JAVADOC_CMD = $(BOOT_JAVA_CMD) \
> -		"-Xbootclasspath/p:$(JAVADOC_JAR)$(CLASSPATH_SEPARATOR)$(JAVAC_JAR)$(CLASSPATH_SEPARATOR)$(DOCLETS_JAR)"
> \
> +		"-Xbootclasspath/p:$(CLASSBINDIR)$(CLASSPATH_SEPARATOR)$(JAVADOC_JAR)$(CLASSPATH_SEPARATOR)$(JAVAC_JAR)$(CLASSPATH_SEPARATOR)$(DOCLETS_JAR)"
> \
>   		-jar $(JAVADOC_JAR) $(JAVADOCFLAGS)
>   else
>     # If no explicit tools, use boot tools (add VM flags in this case)
>
>
> Please do let me know if you're not running into this build problem
> and I'll investigate my setup.
> Is this an acceptable additional build dependency?
> Could you update me on the build status on the Oracle servers?
>
> Thanks and best regards,
> cu, WMD.
>