On 19/11/2014 17:00, Pierre Viret wrote: > Hello > > Since this commit it is not possible anymore to build tomcat 8 with -target > 1.7 & -source 1.7 but we have to use 1.8.
That statement is not correct. > Is it really the awaited result? Yes, the impact of that commit was intentional. > I thought that Tomcat 8 was still jdk 7 > compatible as stated in the release notes: > http://tomcat.apache.org/tomcat-8.0-doc/RELEASE-NOTES.txt Tomcat 8 always has and still is Java 7. > Here an error I get with 1.7 (it works without problem with target & source > set to 1.8): As expected. You are trying to build trunk (Tomcat 9) with Java 7 but Tomcat 9 requires Java 8. See this commit: http://svn.apache.org/r1636341 Mark --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@tomcat.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@tomcat.apache.org
