I will see if I can play with this tonight.  It would be nice if these
settings could be controlled from our build.properties file instead of
setting property values in the command line.

-Mark

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Curt Arnold [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Sent: Tuesday, August 16, 2005 4:07 PM
> To: Log4J Developers List
> Subject: Re: [VOTE] Release log4j 1.2.12rc3 (was log4j 1.3 minimum JDK)
> 
> 
> On Aug 16, 2005, at 4:33 PM, Mark Womack wrote:
> >
> > The javac tag supports an "executable" attribute that lets you
> > specify a
> > path to the javac to use.  Between that and the other attributes, I
> > think we
> > will have enough control to do what we want?
> 
> > I agree that switching to the jdk 1.2 compiler for v1.2.12 at this
> > point
> > will be a disruptive risk, but something we may want to consider
> > and deal
> > with.  But for log4j v1.3 we should certainly look at it.
> 
> Should be no need to modify the build file, the compiler can be
> controlled by the -Dbuild.compiler switch on the Ant command and
> appropriate setting of the PATH and/or JAVA_HOME.   It would be
> undesirable to hard-code a particular compiler choice in the build file.
> 
> Jikes seemed to be the simplest way to tweak your configuration, but
> using the JDK 1.2 or 1.1 compiler or building the whole thing on JDK
> 1.1 or 1.2 (requiring a rebuilt Ant and assembly of things like JAXP
> that are built into later JVM's) should also work.  I was just
> looking for the minimum possible change to your configuration to
> avoid losing something like the JMSAppender due to a configuration
> change.
> 
> When you do decide what one of the multiple options you use to , it
> would be good if you could tell us how you built it.
> 
> Probably worthwhile looking at the recently filed: http://
> issues.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=36213.  The issues raised
> appear also to affect 1.2.12rc3.
> 
> 
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