Ah, makes sense. I brought this up to them. They have updated the PPA ( https://launchpad.net/~webupd8team/+archive/ubuntu/java) to specify that it is using the regular JDK not the jigsaw build; with a link to the jigsaw build.
Malachi de Ælfweald http://www.google.com/profiles/malachid On Tue, Jul 12, 2016 at 11:05 PM, Alan Bateman <alan.bate...@oracle.com> wrote: > On 12/07/2016 22:24, Malachi de Ælfweald wrote: > > I notice that with 9-ea+125-2016-07-06-073258.javare.5251.nc, this works: > --add-modules=ALL-SYSTEM --add-exports=java.base/sun.nio.ch=ALL-UNNAMED > > With a slightly newer 9-ea+126 from webupd8, it causes: > Unrecognized option: --add-modules=ALL-SYSTEM > > Do we need to ask that the WebUpd8 team build with a slightly different > command line? > > I don't know what webupd8 is but I assume you were testing with a Jigsaw > EA builds [1] and have now switched to a regular JDK 9 download [2]. Yeah, > it is confusing to have two downloads but having builds of the sandbox has > been useful to try things. The Jigsaw EA downloads have the support for GNU > style command line options and that support is in the VM too (that is why > you have been able to use them with _JAVA_OPTIONS). We have not brought > these changes into the JDK 9 main line yet so the main line is still on the > old options (-addmods, -XaddExports, ...). We expect to bring the GNU style > module options into JDK 9 in the coming weeks (exact build is TBD). > > -Alan > > [1] https://jdk9.java.net/jigsaw/ > [2] https://jdk9.java.net/download/ > >
