Only building the website docs needs Java 11 (and up). Everything else
builds with Java 8 (and up).

On Wed, 24 May 2023 at 08:05, Claude Warren, Jr
<[email protected]> wrote:
>
> Justin,
>
> There is an issue in the code base that is reasonably common among systems
> that operate at low levels and are migrating from Java 8 implementation
> wherein they need the rt.jar from java 8 for compilation.   There are
> several ways to solve this problem, Pekko (and I suppose Akka) require that
> Java 8 be installed so that the build process can find the Java 8 rt.jar.
> I suspect that all that is actually required to get the current code to
> compile is setting JAVA_8_HOME to point to the directory with the rt.jar in
> it.  However, the Java 8 rt.jar is still required.  I believe there is a
> ticket to resolve this issue but I may be mistaken about this.
>
> Claude
>
> On Wed, May 24, 2023 at 7:38 AM Justin Mclean <[email protected]>
> wrote:
>
> > Hi,
> >
> > Part of the requirement of a release is that someone can build it on their
> > system, and that ideally should be easy to do. I would assume by their
> > system than means a single version of the JDK which they use and is
> > supported. I’m not sure there is be a need for someone testing the release
> > to compile against multiple JDKs?
> >
> > Kind Regards,
> > Justin
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