Re: Issue with bundled commons-codecs and commons-lang

On 23.04.2015 10:41, Tomáš Chvátal wrote:
> Hello everybody,
>
> I am having problem with the 4.4 libreoffice build with bundled libs.
>
> The commons-codecs and commons-lang error out on me with following error:
>
> [23259s] ERROR: the files below contain java bytecode for something
> later than java 1.5,

uhm - *why* exactly is JRE 1.6 byte code an error???

> [23259s] ERROR: please set the javac target to 1.5 or lower.
> [23259s] commons-codec-1.9.jar: org/apache/commons/codec/StringEncoder.class
> [23259s] commons-codec-1.9.jar:
> org/apache/commons/codec/DecoderException.class
> ...
> [23259s] commons-lang3-3.3.1.jar:
> org/apache/commons/lang3/AnnotationUtils.class
> [23259s] commons-lang3-3.3.1.jar:
> org/apache/commons/lang3/text/StrLookup.class
> ...
>
> If I am looking at it correctly it seems like these two are just
> unpacked and the jar reused, instead of being recompiled like it was
> done in past.

really?  must be some downstream distro patch, that's not what upstream
does, we build it with ant in
external/apache-commons/ExternalProject_apache_commons_lang.mk  etc.

(see in particular commit 89db5b5b88508e55bce50240d248dd26053f4e09,
"Apache Commons Lang 3.3.1 at least requires Java 1.6 and non debug
version")