Re: [Firebird-docs] GitHub, Build bugs with Java 9, Assorted Questions!

[Norman D. <No...@du...>]

On 14/02/18 08:01, Mark Rotteveel wrote:

>> Q3. Anyone else seen this? With a clean build? Oracle Java 9?
> 
> The build doesn't work with Java 9. In any case, it works OK for me with 
> Java 8, on Windows.

Ok, good news there. I've downgraded Java to Java 8, removed the 
fork="true" additions and built the docs again. No problems. So I'll 
stick with Java 8 for now.

I might even try to learn some Ant stuff! Maybe. Perhaps.


> A possible workaround is to add dir="${html.dir}" to the java task in 
> the html task (when fork="true", this will use that as the current 
> working directory), I haven't tested it though. However, I'm not sure if 
> forking may cause other issues, so maybe we should tread carefully here.

No worries. I didn't try this option as the Java 8 one worked fine. I've 
reverted the build.xml back to how it was and it's fine. As you mention, 
what other issues could have been unleashed!


> In any case, maybe we should look at updating ant (and maybe some of the 
> other dependencies).

We need an Ant guru then! :-)


Thanks for your help.


Cheers,
Norm.


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