Re: Xalan-J 2.x compile error under JDK 1.1.8_004 "ElemTemplate.java:108: Cyclicclass inheritance or scoping"

[Gary L Peskin <ga...@firstech.com>]

Shane_Curcuru@lotus.com wrote:
> 
> Anyone have any ideas?  I haven't built in JDK 1.1.x since Friday, so the
> change that causes this could have been over the past few days.
> 
> Of course re-running a 'build jar' works fine the second time on the same
> tree; it then compiles the one last file and jars nicely.  But ya can't
> build from a clean tree in my environment: NT 4.0 SP5, JDK1.1.8_004,
> xml-xalan CVS from just a few minutes ago:

Shane --

This started happening to me too.  This was reported at

http://developer.java.sun.com/developer/bugParade/bugs/4043508.html

and apparently has to do with a level of class dependencies exceeding a
certain threshhold and confounding the compiler.  The BugParade item
indicates that Sun is aware of the problem and has no intention of
fixing it.

We have shifted our attention away from XalanJ1 toward XalanJ2 and have
pretty much the same approach to XalanJ1 bugs.  So, I guess this is
what's also happening with JDK 1.1.8, except that we're on the other
side.

I think we should maybe reevaluate our non-migration to Java2 if more
problems like this arise.

Gary