Les Mikesell wrote: > Andrew Overholt wrote: >> >>>>> On Wed, Apr 30, 2008 at 3:07 AM, Andrew Haley <aph@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >>>>>> I take your point. Does simply rebuilding that RPM fix this >>>>>> problem? >>>>> Rebuilding that RPM fails: >>>>> >>>>> [javac] >>>>> /home/jamesjer/rpmbuild/BUILD/axis-1_2_1/src/org/apache/axis/i18n/ProjectResourceBundle.java:363: >>>>> >>>>> clearCache() in org.apache.axis.i18n.ProjectResourceBundle cannot >>>>> override clearCache() in java.util.ResourceBundle; overridden method >>>>> is static final >>>>> [javac] public static void clearCache() >>>>> [javac] ^ >>>> Oh, great. :-( >>>> >>>> That's an incompatible change from Java 1.5 to 1.6. >>>> >>>> Java 1.6 has a final method clearCache(), 1.5 doesn't: >>>> >>>> http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.5.0/docs/api/java/util/ResourceBundle.html >>>> http://java.sun.com/javase/6/docs/api/java/util/ResourceBundle.html >>> So someone has noticed that shipping a 1.6'ish JVM isn't necessarily >>> going to work for everyone who needs to run current java applications? >> >> Since OpenJDK is >= 1.6 (ignoring gcj and other GNU Classpath-based >> JVMs), I'm not sure if there's a better solution. Is there? > > The obvious solution is to ship a jpackage nosrc style rpm for the Sun > Java versions that you are unwilling to include. That would fix up the > fedora rpm dependencies and alternatives symlink weirdness that make > using your own downloaded binary painful otherwise. That seems a little extreme. All we have to do is fix a few incompatibilities. Andrew. -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
