Thanks for taking the time to answer each of the questions. We are running Jenkins in JDK 1.8. The poorly worded error message thought makes a lot of sense. Reading the error message again, I am concluding that the build was retried using the default JDK (the one running Jenkins). As such, we ended up building a JDK 1.6 project with JDK 1.8. The build runs because JDK 1.8 can produce byte code for older versions.
Is this the correct group to suggest an improvement to the error message? The message should make it clear that the build is being run by the default JRE. This has been very helpful. Thank you very much. Michael On Saturday, November 19, 2016 at 8:38:05 AM UTC-7, Daniel Beck wrote: > > > > On 18.11.2016, at 18:46, Michael Giroux <mlgi...@gmail.com <javascript:>> > wrote: > > > > Thanks Daniel. But I'm still not clear on what is going on under the > covers. The job is NOT configured to run on a slave, but the message > indicates that the build was retried on a slave. Is there a default slave > that runs on the Jenkins host to support this retry? > > No. Probably just a badly worded message and the assumption based on best > practices that builds should run on slaves. > > Same behavior change though -- the configured JDK cannot build the > project, so Jenkins will try to use the JRE/JDK that runs Jenkins itself. > > > 1. If the builds will work without being updated, what was the point of > upgrading projects to use toolchains? > > You're building using a newer JRE. Builds may fail even though they should > succeed in your desired configuration, and vice-versa. > > > 2. has Jenkins taken steps to solve the issue by running these jobs in a > slave? > > No, see above. > > > 3. If jenkins has addressed the issue, what is the point of the error > message? It seems to be unnecessary. > > To inform you that possibly undesired magic is happening. > > > 4. Is there a performance issue, or other reason that would justify us > continuing the effort to update the remaining (1000+) projects to build w/ > JDK 1.8 using toolchains to configure the JDK needed to compile/test the > project? > > See above. The project isn't actually built using the JDK you want > building the project. > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Jenkins Users" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to jenkinsci-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/jenkinsci-users/fcfc3ae4-9c26-4f82-aa5b-b9d6eeb2173a%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
