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Bug ID: 6600843
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Synopsis Change default javac (when no langtools available) from BOOTJDK to IMPORTJDK
Category java:build
Reported Against
Release Fixed 7(b20)
State 10-Fix Delivered, bug
Priority: 3-Medium
Related Bugs
Submit Date 04-SEP-2007
Description
With the langtools split, the javac used when not doing a full control build (or when not building your own langtools) was the BOOT jdk. But this creates some problems for some bogus generic errors coming out of older javac's, and also is not a  customer  long term answer when we decide to generate class 7 files. Only a jdk7 javac can build class 7 files.

So this change makes the j2se builds use the javac in the JDK_IMPORT_PATH (set with ALT_JDK_IMPORT_PATH) which defaults to the latest promoted build of jdk7.
Posted Date : 2007-09-04 21:28:02.0
Work Around
N/A
Evaluation
See suggested fix
Posted Date : 2007-09-04 21:28:38.0
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