Re: [bug-gettext] address@hidden: Bug#910246: gettext: FTBFS with Java 11: unknown target-version 11, please update gt_JAVACOMP macro]

[Emmanuel Bourg]

Hi Bruno,

Le 04/10/2018 à 00:49, Bruno Haible a écrit :

> So I assume you already incorporated the 3 patches from March 2018:
> 
> https://git.savannah.gnu.org/gitweb/?p=gnulib.git;a=commitdiff;h=2d3dd35cb263f6566b2924a2adae99385c440f46
> https://git.savannah.gnu.org/gitweb/?p=gnulib.git;a=commitdiff;h=e6cf0b3040eb5d77eb1c03a7f8231a65a1f11e16
> https://git.savannah.gnu.org/gitweb/?p=gnulib.git;a=commitdiff;h=8e33103c084e5c7714e821f5fae592b9cbbb4781
> 
> Then, please apply the 2 patches from September 2018:
> 
> https://git.savannah.gnu.org/gitweb/?p=gnulib.git;a=commitdiff;h=bd09403f71a792b4e5c482c7ebb29d26c129dbe6
> https://git.savannah.gnu.org/gitweb/?p=gnulib.git;a=commitdiff;h=0782fa4dc036a709d5501a8712c5331489c28be9

Thanks a lot for the references.

Out of curiosity, why is such a sophisticated Java version detection
logic necessary? As far as I know it's rather unique. If gettext only
needs a Java 1.4 compiler any version of Java released in the past 15
years is suitable anyway.

Emmanuel Bourg