During episode #281, Carl described some issues with cross compiling from a JDK 6 install (on a Mac in this case) to run on JDK 5. The javac man page documents how to do this; in brief the -target has to be set to the older version and the bootclasspath for compiling must point to a rt.jar from the older JDK too:
http://java.sun.com/javase/6/docs/technotes/tools/solaris/javac.html#crosscomp-example If the bootclasspath is not set, while the resulting class files may work, differences in method resolution could cause use of methods not present in the older release: http://blogs.sun.com/darcy/entry/how_to_cross_compile_for --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "The Java Posse" group. To post to this group, send email to javaposse@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to javaposse+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/javaposse?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---