Re: [linuxtools-dev] Building Eclipse with only Java 7

[Niels Thykier <niels@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

On 2011-08-26 22:42, Andrew Overholt wrote:
> Hi,
> 
>> I had to bootstrap with OpenJDK 6 due to some target=jsr14 differences
>> in OpenJDK 7.
> 
> Overcoming this was harder than I thought it would be.  It looks like
> target=jsr14 doesn't work with OpenJDK 7.  At least, I couldn't make it
> work.  For phase 1 of our bootstrapping process, we build with the
> system javac.  For this phase (and this phase only), I've made the
> bundles with target=jsr14 use target=1.5.  The build.xml files are then
> all re-generated by PDE Build and JDT Core -- which supports jsr14 -- is
> used for building the final JARs.
> 
> The only consequence of this is that I had to make sat4j build 1.5-level
> bytecode.  For all practical Linux distribution purposes, anything < 1.5
> isn't important so I don't see a problem with this.  It does, however,
> mean that eclipse-build consumers must have a system org.sat4j.pb JAR
> that contains 1.5-level bytecode.  Is this a problem for distributions
> other than Fedora?
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Andrew
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Hi,

Debian has had some issues with getting 3.7 to work, so I have not had
time to look at this.  As far as a brief investigation told me, Debian's
sat4j package appears to be compiled with 1.4 (debian/ant.properties).
  I have CC'ed the maintainer of sat4j in Debian, Michael, who I hope
can comment on whether using 1.5 will cause for Debian.

~Niels