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From: Leo Famulari <leo@famulari.name>
Subject: Re: Trying to build latest Icedtea / Java 6 [security update]
Date: Tue, 31 May 2016 18:52:34 -0400
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To: Ricardo Wurmus <rekado@elephly.net>
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On Tue, May 31, 2016 at 09:13:04PM +0200, Ricardo Wurmus wrote:
> Leo Famulari <leo@famulari.name> writes:
> 
> > Icedtea 1.13.11 was released, which fixes a number of security bugs:
> >
> > http://blog.fuseyism.com/index.php/2016/05/04/security-icedtea-1-13-11-for-openjdk-6-released/
> >
> > I tried to build it with the attached patch, but it fails for me. I've
> > attached the tail of the build log. Any advice?
> 
> The patch looks good to me.  If I understand correctly this may be
> because we’re bootstrapping with GCJ, which implements Java 1.5.  You
> can see in the log that “javac” runs with “-source 1.5 -target 5”, which
> means that it assumes that the code is written in compliance with Java
> 1.5.  Maybe this file simply is not valid Java 1.5.
> 
> According to http://stackoverflow.com/a/8697805/519736 “@Override” is
> interpreted more strictly in 1.5.  I don’t know much about Java and I
> haven’t looked at the sources in question, but I guess there are
> “@Override” annotations above the five method declarations.  We might be
> able to just remove them.
> 
> I think this should be reported to Andrew; looks like a bug as
> bootstrapping with GCJ should work for OpenJDK 6.

Done: http://icedtea.classpath.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=2990