Looking at https://packages.ubuntu.com/search?suite=all§ion=all&arch=any&keywords=openjdk-9-jdk&searchon=names it seems like Ubuntu ships whatever openjdk-9 is available at time of creation of a specific version, and doesn't update it afterwards, not even for the quarterly security patches.
On Thu, Feb 15, 2018 at 7:42 AM, Erik Joelsson <erik.joels...@oracle.com> wrote: > I have hit this same problem once for the same reason Alan describes. > Ubuntu provided me with a really old EA build of 9. > > /Erik > > > > On 2018-02-15 00:05, Alan Bateman wrote: > >> >> >> On 15/02/2018 06:32, Ted Neward wrote: >> >>> Really?!? I thought the javac -help only listed -modulepath. Not to >>> disbelieve you *grin*, but are you sure? The reason I ask is (barring some >>> really bizarre misconfiguration) I should be using the OpenJDK9 as the boot >>> JDK for this, and I'm getting the error. >>> >>> What is your boot JDK? Any possibility that you have really old EA build >> of JDK 9? >> > >
