I thought nobody responded my question. Eventually discovered on a mailarchive site single response.
I had java-1.6.0-openjdk-1:1.6.0.0-0.25-b09-fc9 (i386) all had been installed with yum. I have removed all OpenJDK and installed sun verison 1.6.xx then. Compilation completed successfully. So the problem with OpenJDK Best Regards Alexander Aristov On 28 November 2011 14:43, Alexander Aristov <[email protected]>wrote: > Hi everyone, > > Can anybody tell me why Nutch doesn't compile on my new old Fedora OS 9 > with openJDK java installed. > > It complains on many warnings and errors during compilation. With Sun Java > compilation is OK. > > Should I consider that openJDK is not compliant with java standards? > potentially I intend to use it in other java systems and this might urge me > to re-think my decision. > > > Best Regards > Alexander Aristov >

