You need to look in the published (built) BUILDING.txt file, not the raw
sources. The raw sources are meant to prouce a build, the yre not for
human consumption.
You can e.g. download a published form og Tomcat 8.5.100 and look into
BUILDING.txt there.
Regards,
Rainer
Am 22.03.24 um 13:01 schrieb Koteswararao Gundapaneni:
On Fri, Mar 22, 2024 at 4:09 AM Mark Thomas <ma...@apache.org
<mailto:ma...@apache.org>> wrote:
On 22/03/2024 10:54, Koteswararao Gundapaneni wrote:
> Hi,
>
> While building the tomcat source 8.5.100 its giving an error with
java 7
>
> below is the error
>
> ANT_OPTS is set to -Djava.security.manager=allow
> Error occurred during initialization of VM
> java.lang.UnsupportedClassVersionError: allow : Unsupported
major.minor
> version 52.0
>
> in Building.txt file it has the following instruction
>
> 3. Install the JDK according to the instructions included with
the release.
>
> so if am not wrong, we could suggest java11 is required for the build
> process in the instructions given
Yes, you are wrong.
PLEASE read the documentation first. Specifically this sentence from
BUILDING.txt
<quote>
Download a version 11 or later of Java Development Kit...
</quote>
Mark
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