[RAT-188] Fix RAT build on GUMP with Java 8 (workaround MANIMALSNIFFER-45)

• Type: Bug
• Status: Resolved
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Fix Version/s: 0.12
• Component/s: Client - maven
• Assignee: Philipp Ottlinger
• Reporter: Mark Thomas
• Created: 11/Nov/14 08:47
• Updated: 11/Nov/14 21:39
• Resolved: 11/Nov/14 21:39

Description

The ASF Gump CI service has recently switched to using Java 8. This triggered a number of failures, including one in Rat.

This failure is caused by MANIMALSNIFFER-45 [1]. The root cause is a dependency on a version of ASM that does not support Java 8 byte code.

A work-around until the MANIMALSNIFFER is updated is the attached patch.

[1] https://jira.codehaus.org/browse/MANIMALSNIFFER-45