Re: Trying to build latest Icedtea / Java 6 [security update]

[Leo Famulari]

On Tue, May 31, 2016 at 09:13:04PM +0200, Ricardo Wurmus wrote:
> Leo Famulari <address@hidden> 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 address@hidden 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
> address@hidden 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