0.98 compiles using the recent version of Java 6, 6u45. I think there was a compiler bug wrt type erasure introduced somewhere in the middle of that lineage that could still be in OpenJDK. In any case, please see https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/BIGTOP-1110?focusedCommentId=14044099&page=com.atlassian.jira.plugin.system.issuetabpanels:comment-tabpanel#comment-14044099
On Wed, Jun 25, 2014 at 2:39 PM, Andrew Purtell <[email protected]> wrote: > Try compiling with Oracle Java 6. Same result ? > > > On Jun 25, 2014, at 12:54 PM, Konstantin Boudnik <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > Back in time of JDK6 GA - when I was still working in Sun's JDK team - > we had > > companies sitting on 1.4 and paying _a lot_ of money for Sun support of > it. > > So... > > > > That said, I think moving to JDK7 is pretty much has happened already for > > HBase, because e.g. 0.98.2 can not be build with JDK6 because we see > > https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HBASE-8479 > > in Bigtop CI. > > > > Cos > > > >> On Wed, Jun 25, 2014 at 10:29AM, Andrew Purtell wrote: > >> Er, I mean no user should be running on a runtime less than 7, they are > all > >> EOL... > >> > >> > >> On Wed, Jun 25, 2014 at 10:28 AM, Andrew Purtell <[email protected]> > >> wrote: > >> > >>> > >>> On Wed, Jun 25, 2014 at 9:15 AM, Nicolas Liochon <[email protected]> > >>> wrote: > >>> > >>>> Should we be 1.7 only for trunk / 1.0? > >>>> This would mean using the 1.7 features. > >>> > >>> I think this is prudent. Hadoop common is having a similar discussion > and > >>> I think converging on consensus that they would be ok with their trunk > >>> including features only available in 7. > >>> > >>> > >>>> What about .98? > >>> > >>> I don't think this is an option, because although no user should be > >>> running with a 7 runtime (and in fact performance conscious users > should be > >>> looking hard at 8), vendors will still have to support customers on 6. > > >>> > >>> -- > >>> Best regards, > >>> > >>> - Andy > >>> > >>> Problems worthy of attack prove their worth by hitting back. - Piet > Hein > >>> (via Tom White) > >> > >> > >> > >> -- > >> Best regards, > >> > >> - Andy > >> > >> Problems worthy of attack prove their worth by hitting back. - Piet Hein > >> (via Tom White) >
