On Thu, Oct 14, 2010 at 11:14 PM, Kevan Miller <[email protected]> wrote: > > On Oct 14, 2010, at 7:48 PM, Ted Kirby wrote: > >> Thanks Shawn and Janet. I switched to Sun JDK, and not only got by >> this problem, but, after a couple others, I got a successful build! >> WooHoo! >> >> I was getting the error with JRE 1.6.0 IBM Windows 32 build >> pwi3260sr7-20091217_01 (SR7). Do we support building only with Sun >> JDK? > > Umm. No. I can't think why we'd say that. Would seem there are two > possibilities: > > 1) IBM JDK has more strict validation and we should fix our source (I'm not > sure if Shawn and Janet are using Sun or IBM JDK), or > 2) There's a compiler bug > > Google 'inconvertible types' and you'll get a number of hits for compiler > bugs in this area. Your IBM JDK is nearly a year old. I'd guess there's a > decent chance that upgrading would fix your problem.
Just tried building trunk with IBM SDK. You'll definitely need SR8. You'll get inconvertible type error with SR7. Jarek
