Andrew Overholt writes:
> Hi,
>
> I attempted to build $subj yesterday but ran into a snag with their new 1.5
> stuff in org.eclipse.jdt.apt (Annotation Processing Tools). We'll have to
> work with the Eclipse releng team to get some conditional compilation and
> inclusion of apt set up instead of the current "don't build if not using a
> 1.5 JDK".
>
> In the meantime, however, I found an issue with libcj and ant.java.version.
>
> ant.java.version is the property that the Eclipse uses to determine what
> JVM/JDK is being used. It is implemented like this [1]:
>
> Class.forName("java.lang.Readable");
> javaVersion = JAVA_1_5;
>
> and if we look in libgcj:
>
> $ unzip -l /usr/share/java/libgcj-4.1.0.jar | grep java.lang.Readable
> 197 02-06-06 03:44 java/lang/Readable.class
>
> So with a simple test.xml [2], we get:
>
> [echo] java.version is 1.5
>
> Is there a way we can get around this without patching ant or removing the
> 1.5 class library stuff from libgcj?
Suggest we patch ant to use System.getProperty("java.version") and
push that patch upstream.
Andrew.
