When I tried to build the JavaDocs for PDFBox 2.1.0-SNAPSHOT (taken from
SVN yesterday) with Java 8, `mvn javadoc:javadoc` failed with numerous
errors. To correct this, I had to turn off the doclint by modifying
parent/pom.xml as follows:
$ svn diff parent/pom.xml
Index: parent/pom.xml
===================================================================
--- parent/pom.xml (revision 1749587)
+++ parent/pom.xml (working copy)
@@ -160,6 +160,7 @@
</links>
<encoding>UTF-8</encoding>
<notimestamp>true</notimestamp>
+ <additionalparam>-Xdoclint:none</additionalparam>
</configuration>
</plugin>
<plugin>
(Tip taken from
http://blog.joda.org/2014/02/turning-off-doclint-in-jdk-8-javadoc.html)
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are is hell, And where hell is, there must we ever be" --Christopher
Marlowe, *Doctor Faustus* (v. 121-24)
