Ok, what is confusing me is the name JAVAC_JARS. This not a list of jars, but command line options. Can we please rename this variable?
-kto On Dec 11, 2012, at 10:42 AM, Tim Bell wrote: > See the message thread on build-infra with subject "Problems with non Oracle > boot JDKs and class file version 52" > > http://mail.openjdk.java.net/pipermail/build-infra-dev/2012-December/002601.html > > The issue appears if the bootstrap VM uses a class file version older than > what the current build is generating. > > In this particular case, the bootclasspath needs to be supplied to javac and > not the java running javac. Changing the order of the arguments to be after > the javac .jar means javac will process them. > > Tim > > > On 12/11/12 10:20, Kelly O'Hair wrote: >> I don't understand the change. >> >> What is in JAVAC_JARS that changing it's position on the command line makes >> any difference? >> >> -kto >> >> On Dec 11, 2012, at 5:03 AM, Erik Joelsson wrote: >> >>> This patch corrects the command line for symbol creation. >>> >>> http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~erikj/8004803/webrev.jdk.01/ >>> >>> /Erik > >
