Bryan Pendleton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >>>As part of preparing to work on DERBY-666 I've been setting myself >>>up to be able to build and test Derby using JDK 1.5. >> You need to use JDK 1.4 to build Derby. > > I think I didn't make my question very clear.
> > I already have a JDK 1.4 build environment set up for Derby, > and I am able to build it successfully and run the tests. Sorry, I should have read your post more carefully. I thought I saw you saying that you were running derbyall... too quick on the send button. > However, I am interested in working on bug DERBY-666, for which the > proposed fix involves using some new JDK 1.5 features. This fix > would only be available to users who were able to use JDK 1.5 in > their environment, but for many users that might be acceptable. > > So what I'm trying to do is to figure out what is necessary, in > the build and test environment, to add JDK 1.5 as a supported > environment. > > And, I tried the naive experiment of simply making JDK 1.5 my > "native" environment, and encountered a very strange error which > I don't really understand. > > So, consider my question to be: > > What is the best way to incorporate JDK 1.5 into the Derby > build and test environment as a supported JDK? Hmm, I think getting Derby to build with 1.5 is a bigger job than JIRA-666 itself, and I suspect that the reason that it hasn't been done already is because it is non-trivial. But if you could fix it I would be very grateful, and I think others would too :) I think maybe Andrew McIntyre is the build system specialist (my appologies if there are others)... -- dt
