On Thu, Jun 25, 2009 at 10:01 AM, Marcus Better<[email protected]> wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > Mathieu Malaterre wrote: >> I must be doing something wrong, but I do not see what is wrong with >> the following piece of code (*). Is there a restriction when using ecj >> as the java compiler ? > > The manpage for ecj indicates that it is building with source level 1.4 by > default. Covariant return types are a Java 5 feature. Try the -1.5 switch.
Ok, I looked at the openjdk-6-jdk package and it seems there is no such thing as -1.5, but instead -source 1.5. So my question: is it ok for package maintainer to use javac -source 1.5 to compile code or will there be some portability glitch (user is alowed to set other java compiler). Thanks, -- Mathieu _______________________________________________ pkg-java-maintainers mailing list [email protected] http://lists.alioth.debian.org/mailman/listinfo/pkg-java-maintainers
