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authorLasse Collin <lasse.collin@tukaani.org>2018-01-02 22:01:30 +0200
committerLasse Collin <lasse.collin@tukaani.org>2018-01-02 22:01:30 +0200
commited4d534f803fcd06ed3b16166136146363c97479 (patch)
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Document "sourcever = 1.5" incompatibility with OpenJDK 9 in README.
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@@ -28,6 +28,11 @@ Building
will download a small file named "package-list" from Oracle to
enable linking to the documentation of the standard Java classes.
+ If you are using OpenJDK 9 or later, you will need to edit the
+ "sourcever = 1.5" line in the file "build.properties" before
+ running "ant". Set it to 1.6 or higher. The default value 1.5
+ isn't supported by OpenJDK 9 or later.
+
If you cannot or don't want to use Ant, just compile all .java
files under the "src" directory.