On 15 November 2013 08:25, Oliver-Rainer Wittmann <orwittm...@googlemail.com > wrote:
> Hi, > > > On 15.11.2013 00:54, Kay Schenk wrote: > >> On Wed, Nov 13, 2013 at 11:26 PM, janI <j...@apache.org> wrote: >> >> On 14 November 2013 03:32, Kay Schenk <kay.sch...@gmail.com> wrote: >>> >>> On Sun, Sep 22, 2013 at 5:11 AM, Andrea Pescetti <pesce...@apache.org >>>> >>>>> wrote: >>>>> >>>> >>>> On 12/09/2013 Kay Schenk wrote: >>>>> >>>>> Did we reach a consensus on this one? >>>>>> Wait until 4.1 to "officially" change java build environment to 7? >>>>>> Buildbots are still at 6, although I know some of us are using 7 for >>>>>> building with no problems. >>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>> We didn't reach consensus, the reason being (rather than disagreement) >>>>> that it's unclear: >>>>> - what the proposal is about exactly >>>>> - what's broken in the current setup >>>>> - what's the impact on people who wish to build OpenOffice >>>>> - what's the impact on people who wish to use OpenOffice >>>>> >>>>> Now, after yet another discussion where we explain Java to each other, >>>>> >>>> we >>> >>>> can take for granted that we all know about it and move on and see what >>>>> >>>> the >>>> >>>>> proposal is about in concrete, so that is can be evaluated properly and >>>>> maybe implemented in time for 4.1. >>>>> >>>>> Regards, >>>>> Andrea. >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> --------------------------------------------------------------------- >>>>> To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@openoffice.apache.org >>>>> For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@openoffice.apache.org >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> OK, I'm back on this old thread. The thing is the security >>>> considerations >>>> do not just apply to Windows. I suggest we switch to java 7 as default >>>> >>> and >>> >>>> change the settings for "javacompiler" in configure.in appropriately to >>>> deal with this. >>>> >>>> Although by default, I build with java 7, I will make this change >>>> locally >>>> and see what happens. >>>> >>>> >>> +1, so we use java 7 for development, but the final installation still >>> runs >>> with both java 6 and java 7. >>> >>> rgds >>> jan I. >>> >>> >> Well, in theory, yes. In practice -- I guess not. :( >> >> I changed my configure.in etc and rebuilt. Then a final stop with this >> message -- >> >> javac: source release 1.7 requires target release 1.7 >> >> in module jvmfwk >> >> >> The man page for javac (openJDK 7)has this info talks about "default" >> values for targets depending on source...here are the last bits of that >> >> o If -source is 1.5, the value of -target is 1.7 >> >> o If -source is 1.6, the value of -target is 1.7 >> >> o For all other values of -source, the value of -target is the value of >> -source. >> >> but no specific information saying iyou can NOT specify a target value >> that is below your source value. >> >> I imagine this is universal and not just specific to openJDK but I don't >> know for sure. >> >> Any other ideas? >> >> > On my attempt to build on Windows with Java 1.7 (Windows 7 64bit Home > Premium VM) I did the following: > After having setup the build environment via configure, bootstrap and > sourcing the creating 'winenv.set.sh' I set the environment variable > JAVAFLAGS to "-source 1.5 -target 1.5" by command > - export JAVAFLAGS='-source 1.5 -target 1.5' > > My build was sucessfull and the resulting installation set worked on a > different Windows machine with Java 1.6 > I have done a similar thing on ubuntu 12.04, manually modified LinuxX86-64Env.Set.sh and it builds correctly. > > Unfortunately, I did not continued my work on it - e.g. > - detecting the Java version during configure > - setting JAVAFLAGS automatically depending on the detected Java version > It seems the right place to do this is configure.in. But why detect version, why not simple set the flags ? rgds jan I. > > > Best regards, Oliver. > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@openoffice.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@openoffice.apache.org > >
