Ulf Zibis wrote:
Jon,
thanks for 1st clarification.
I have
bootstrap.jdk=C:/Programme/Java/jdk1.7.0
in ${user.home}/.openjdk/build.properties instead of
boot.javac.target. Why 2 different names for the same thing?
The NetBeans projects in the jdk/ repository were written by a different
person who has since left Sun. As far as I know, no-one is looking
after those projects at this point. I cannot speak to their contents.
So I guess, settings for boot.javac.source and boot.javac.target
should be better located in
${user.home}/.openjdk/langtools-build.properties, than in
${user.home}/.openjdk/build.properties ?
Yes, that would seem best.
For NetBeans "Clean and Build" settings for boot.javac.source and
boot.javac.target in ${user.home}/.openjdk/*build.properties don't
seem to be necessary, and regrettably settings for:
javac.source = 6
javac.target = 6
don't work, either in
make/netbeans/langtools/nbproject/private/langtools.properties. I had
to set them in build.properties.
This morning, we identified and fixed an issue with the setting of
javac.bootclasspath in the langtools/make/build.xml file. A fix has
been pushed to the TL/ family of repositories. This should fix being
able to build langtools with JDK 6, so no additional changes to
javac.source and javac.target should be necessary.
I'm not happy to use NetBeans Properties box under Tools> Options>
Miscellaneous> Ant, because those settings are for ALL NetBeans projects.
Noted. I mostly work on copies of the langtools repository so setting
values there works OK for me. I accept this may not work for everyone.
IMO best location would be:
make/netbeans/langtools/nbproject/private/langtools.properties. In
make/netbeans/langtools/build.xml they should be loaded before:
<import file="../../build.xml"/>
This would only work if you are using NetBeans all the time.
Please add NetBeans project specific hints in make/build.properties.
...
There should not need to be any NetBeans project specific hints, because
you can configure and use make/build.xml and make/build.properties with
Ant directly, without using NetBeans.
Please bear in mind that some of this issues you have been fighting have
been caused by a mistake in make/build.xml, for which I apologise. For
the most part, you should just have to set boot.java.home to build
langtools, and target.java.home and jtreg.home if you want to run the tests.
-- Jon
