Re: Master branch and java version

[Alan Woodward <al...@flax.co.uk>]

Yes, I vaguely remember seeing something about it before - mainly I just wanted to put something on the list in case anybody else got weird compiler errors from code that was happily passing Jenkins tests!  Thanks for double-checking, anyway.

Alan Woodward
www.flax.co.uk


On 29 Feb 2016, at 22:00, Uwe Schindler wrote:

> The code is right. It's a compiler bug.
> 
> I thinks it is the one we found back at that time, too.
> 
> Uwe
> 
> Am 29. Februar 2016 22:57:26 MEZ, schrieb Uwe Schindler <uw...@thetaphi.de>:
> Oh sorry' I touched that code! I'll check.
> 
> Uwe
> 
> Am 29. Februar 2016 22:56:10 MEZ, schrieb Uwe Schindler <uw...@thetaphi.de>:
> Thanks. This is not there code I was working on! But I remember that there was a javac bug introduced in update 20. Maybe it is that one.
> 
> I assume the code is alright and compiler is wrong.
> 
> Uwe
> 
> Am 29. Februar 2016 22:49:52 MEZ, schrieb Alan Woodward <al...@flax.co.uk>:
> common.compile-core:
>     [javac] Compiling 1 source file to /Users/woody/asf/lucene-solr-trunk/lucene/build/suggest/classes/java
>     [javac] /Users/woody/asf/lucene-solr-trunk/lucene/suggest/src/java/org/apache/lucene/search/suggest/tst/TSTLookup.java:79: error: cannot assign a value to final variable aStop
>     [javac]       aStop = aUpto + a.length;
>     [javac]       ^
>     [javac] /Users/woody/asf/lucene-solr-trunk/lucene/suggest/src/java/org/apache/lucene/search/suggest/tst/TSTLookup.java:81: error: cannot assign a value to final variable aStop
>     [javac]       aStop = aUpto + b.length;
>     [javac]       ^
>     [javac] 2 errors
> 
> Compiles under 1.8.0_74, gives this error for 1.8.0_25
> 
> 
> On 29 Feb 2016, at 21:38, Uwe Schindler wrote:
> 
>> Can you post the error? I touched that code yesterday. Maybe I broke that. It would still be good to fix this.
>> 
>> Uwe
>> 
>> Am 29. Februar 2016 21:08:50 MEZ, schrieb Alan Woodward <al...@flax.co.uk>:
>> Just in case anybody else out there runs into this, I was having problems compiling master earlier using Java 1.8.0_25, due to the compiler not liking an immediate assignment to a final variable in TSTLookup.java.  Upgrading to 1.8.0_74 made the problem go away.
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