[CASSANDRA-11807] Add modern arguments to build.xml javac

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Resolved
• Priority: Low
• Resolution: Fixed
• Fix Version/s: 3.8
• Component/s: Legacy/Testing
• Assignee: Edward Capriolo
• Reporter: Edward Capriolo

Authors

Edward Capriolo

Reviewers

T Jake Luciani

• Created: 15/May/16 19:41
• Updated: 16/Apr/19 09:30
• Resolved: 17/May/16 17:08

Description

My out-of-the-box experience with Cassandra trunk is:

/home/edward/Documents/java/cassandra/build.xml:805: Class not found: javac1.8

Due to the nature of ant It can be related to some obscure thing that probably only affects .0003 of users. In any case documentation on the interweb suggests:

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/20702626/javac1-8-class-not-found

compiler="modern"

It seems to be reasonable that since trunk will only build on ultra-modern jvms compiler="modern" is an acceptable option. With this the build works (for me)