Hi,
On Thu, Dec 23, 2021, at 13:33, Vladimir Sitnikov wrote: >>using maven toolchain feature > > Are toolchains really needed, especially, 1.6 and 1.7? > I believe Java "target=1.4" + Java 1.8 would be good enough. > If there are javadoc "warnings or errors", we could just suppress it. > At the end of the day, making the build 100 times harder by requesting Java > 1.6 > looks like an overkill. > > I think there's no way to install Java 1.6 on modern macOS. Correct. I would suggest Docker, if there is a way to install it there. Here is some more installation instructions: https://github.com/apache/logging-log4j1/blob/trunk/INSTALL For a complete build for a release, one needs to run tests using some DLLs which made it very hard back then. Christian > > Vladimir
