On 28 March 2010 16:34, Dalibor Topic <dalibor.to...@sun.com> wrote: > Andrew John Hughes wrote: >> On 26 March 2010 16:06, Kelly O'Hair <kelly.oh...@oracle.com> wrote: >>> It appears that a problem with ant 1.7.1 can potentially impact the open jdk >>> builds, see >>> https://issues.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=43114 for more >>> information. >>> The potential for missing package-info.class files seems high, and the >>> latest jaxws >>> sources run into this problem. >>> >> >> We've seen this issue on Fedora 10 and 11. > > Since you don't list Fedora 12, I'm curious - has the corresponding patch > from ant been backported to the Fedora 12 ant packages? >
Sorry, I haven't seen the issue myself nor do I know what's in the various Ant packages. I've pointed Pavel at this thread; maybe he'll know more. >> Can we not just blacklist 1.7.1 as suggested in the bug? Personally, >> you may not want to move to 1.7.0 but forcing 1.8 is going to be >> difficult as it's not yet in enough distros. That said, by the time >> this filters through to OpenJDK6, it may be. >> >> Is there no way of working around 1.7.1 on our side? > > I assume the distributions that ship a patched ant 1.7.1 package could > change the check to accept 1.7.1. Would that work? > 1.8 has its own issues, as have been posted on the list too. I think blocking anything but 1.8 is far too drastic, especially in the immediate future. > cheers, > dalibor topic > > -- > ******************************************************************* > Dalibor Topic Tel: (+49 40) 23 646 738 > Java F/OSS Ambassador AIM: robiladonaim > Sun Microsystems GmbH Mobile: (+49 177) 2664 192 > Nagelsweg 55 http://openjdk.java.net > D-20097 Hamburg mailto:dalibor.to...@sun.com > Sitz der Gesellschaft: Sonnenallee 1, D-85551 Kirchheim-Heimstetten > Amtsgericht München: HRB 161028 > Geschäftsführer: Thomas Schröder > > > -- Andrew :-) Free Java Software Engineer Red Hat, Inc. (http://www.redhat.com) Support Free Java! Contribute to GNU Classpath and the OpenJDK http://www.gnu.org/software/classpath http://openjdk.java.net PGP Key: 94EFD9D8 (http://subkeys.pgp.net) Fingerprint: F8EF F1EA 401E 2E60 15FA 7927 142C 2591 94EF D9D8
