That's certainly a possibility. With JDK6U45 everything works. And I have stepped on HBASE-11418 ;(
On Thu, Jun 26, 2014 at 11:52AM, Andrew Purtell wrote: > 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) > >
