make error

[Michael Stahl]

On 20/03/13 12:22, d.ostrovsky at idaia.de wrote:
> Quoting Michael Stahl <mstahl at redhat.com>:
> 
>>
>> that is very odd, your javac does not understand -source and -target
>> parameters. [...]
> that is not odd at all:
> http://linux.die.net/man/1/gcj
> 
> the arguments are different there
> -fsource
> -ftarget
> 
> and because it is not the first time someone fails into it
> http://nabble.documentfoundation.org/Make-help-td4035866.html
> why not to add a check in configure and fail earlier?

hmm... or just use the gcj parameters if one uses that... seems we have
a JAVACISGCJ var... should be rather easy to do

> But why do we still stick to 1.5 source and target version of bytecode anyway?

AFAIK the reason for that is called Debian GNU/kFreeBSD, which does not
have a Java 1.6 implementation available (otherwise it would be 1.6
already).