Thanks Akim for the commit, so now the release will be able to pass the tests on Mac OSX without any tweaks.
Cheers -- Yijun == http://mcs.open.ac.uk/yy66 ________________________________________ From: Akim Demaille <akim.demai...@gmail.com> Sent: Monday, October 15, 2018 5:56:49 AM To: Bruno Haible Cc: Bug-gnulib; Yijun.Yu; Bison Patches Subject: Re: Current requirements for Java Hi all! > Le 14 oct. 2018 à 22:24, Bruno Haible <br...@clisp.org> a écrit : > > The essential reference is the timeline of Java releases: > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Java_version_history Thanks! > As you can see, Java specification levels 1.3, 1.4, 1.5 are outdated for > more than 3 years. And level 1.6 will be outdated in December 2018. > So, why not move to > gt_JAVACOMP([1.7], [1.7]) > already now? It does make sense. Someday, I should check if these newer features should be used in the generated code. > What this change implies? > 1) You must adapt your source code (or bison-generated code) to be compliant > with Java 1.7. In particular, you cannot have variables or methods named > 'assert' any more, since this is a keyword since Java 1.4. And a couple > of things like that. Luckily, nothing was needed. > 2) You cannot use GCJ as Java implementation any more, since it stayed > at level 1.5 / 1.6 before it was discontinued. (It was dropped in GCC 7.) > 3) Users who want to use the compiled .class / .jar files will need Java 7 > or newer. But this is not a problem, since the industry has already > moved from Java 6 to Java 7 (mostly). That’s what I was truly worried about, thanks! Thanks to Paul and you. I installed this in Bison. commit cf0e35460e26e3bbbcfd1220d606a38151c86327 Author: Akim Demaille <akim.demai...@gmail.com> Date: Mon Oct 15 06:36:52 2018 +0200 java: bump to Java SE 7 macOS 10.14 no longer supports versions of Java earlier than 5. And Java 6 will be deprecated by the end of this year. So let's move our requirement to Java 7. Reported by Yu Yijun. https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-bison/2018-09/msg00060.html Suggested by Paul Eggert and Bruno Haible. http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-gnulib/2018-10/msg00094.html * configure.ac: Require Java 7, both compiler and runtime. diff --git a/configure.ac b/configure.ac index 7cd0964d..a569ef7c 100644 --- a/configure.ac +++ b/configure.ac @@ -267,7 +267,7 @@ AM_MISSING_PROG([AUTOM4TE], [autom4te]) # Needed by tests/atlocal.in. AC_SUBST([GCC]) -gt_JAVACOMP([1.3], [1.4]) +gt_JAVACOMP([1.7], [1.7]) gt_JAVAEXEC AC_CONFIG_FILES([Makefile -- The Open University is incorporated by Royal Charter (RC 000391), an exempt charity in England & Wales and a charity registered in Scotland (SC 038302). The Open University is authorised and regulated by the Financial Conduct Authority in relation to its secondary activity of credit broking.
