Just to close the loop - here is the answer (from Jonathan Gibbons, author of javah):
> I looked at the Ant <javah> task, and it's a simple enough wrapper around > whatever impl of javah it can find. > > The fundamental problem is that back in JDK 5, javah was rewritten for the > first time, but the old code remained available via the -Xold switch. But, > it wasn't a very good rewrite, so in the JDK 6/7 timeframe, I rewrote parts > of it, and because there were already two versions of javah in JDK, and I was > about to add a third, I got rid of the other two, and eliminated the > undocumented -Xold option. > > So, you can probably figure out the rest of the story. > > The change in behavior that you came across was introduced round about JDK 5, > but it was masked by Ant using the -Xold switch to get at the old code. > When I did my rewrite, I removed -Xold, thus forcing the Ant task to move to > a later version of javah, thus getting the additional header files. > > For my part, when I did my rewrite back in JDK 6/7, I retained fidelity with > the standard command line version of javah in use at the time, so I wrote it > so that it continued to generate headers for nested classes. Greg On Mar 13, 2012, at 1:28 PM, Greg Brown wrote: >> The implementation of Ant's javah task doesn't even check which version >> of Java you are using. If this is a change, it is within the JDK, not >> Ant. > > That was my first thought as well: > > http://mail.openjdk.java.net/pipermail/macosx-port-dev/2012-March/003554.html > >> If you run Ant -verbose it should give you the literal command line it >> passes to javah. I wouldn't expect it to contain your nested classes. > > I'll try that and let you know what I find out. > > Thanks! > Greg > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: user-unsubscr...@ant.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: user-h...@ant.apache.org > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: user-unsubscr...@ant.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: user-h...@ant.apache.org
