Hi Martijn,

I've sent the reproducer in a private mail. I am not expecting a fix
today and neither do I plan to release immediately, so please take your
time to look into this - there's no rush.

-Jaikiran

On 25/08/19 1:10 PM, j...@apach.org wrote:
> Hi Jaikiran
> 
> Will look into it immediately, if you have a simple reproducer it would
> be great if you could mail it to me.
> 
> The problem that was hit was that JAVA10 and higher were becoming
> ambiguous with JAVA 1.0, furthermore I removed code that would only be
> triggered if run on version below java 8.
> 
> Br Martijn
> 
> 
> On 25-08-19 09:18, Jaikiran Pai wrote:
>> Hello Martijn,
>>
>> I was in the process of running some tests to decide if we are in a
>> state to do a release of Ant project. While doing so, I ran into an
>> issue where our project build no longer honours the source, target and
>> release attributes of the javac task for versions of javac that support
>> it. For example when building with Java 11 our "compile" target in
>> build.xml although has the correct attribute values, those values never
>> get passed to the underlying javac call. As a result, the compiled
>> classes use an incorrect major/minor version and can no longer boot in
>> Java 8, when compiled from Java 11. Debugging this, I found that this
>> issue is a consequence of the changes in [1][2][3]. [2] and [3] are just
>> follow-up commits to [1], so the main issue seems to be related to the
>> change in [1]. I tried to review it, but don't have much context around
>> that change. Was it related to some enhancement/bug-fix? Let me know if
>> you need a simple reproducer to help reproduce this problem locally.
>>
>> I haven't yet had a chance to see if this impacts other attributes of
>> the javac task and not just source/target/release attributes.
>>
>> [1]
>> https://github.com/apache/ant/commit/8f903513877e81e1c2e180c80c467f1ad71fc1d9
>>
>>
>> [2]
>> https://github.com/apache/ant/commit/7b825e7c9600aa98156572bf8e83871f7e6bd911
>>
>>
>> [3]
>> https://github.com/apache/ant/commit/4af231688855cfc59c11e24250852158b3eeb3f8
>>
>>
>> -Jaikiran
>>
>>
>>

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