commons-pool doesn't compile for java 1.5

[kernelcowboy]

is this news to anyone? bugzilla says "Zarro Boogs found. " it's the enum keyword problem. (incidentally it doesn't mention this in the tomcat bugs either, and this is a dependancy.)

i dont know too much about dependancies and bugs in the gentoo world. but, i do in the java word.

is there any way around this until it's fixed? like may be installing as a binary?

thanks

[alistair]

switch your system-jm to a java1.4 version. I believe, this was true late last year at least, that java1.5 has not been marked stable for the simple reason that a lot of the java packages in portage do not support compulation by java1.5, including some important build tools (maybe ant, im not to sure). As you can imagine this is very important for a source based distro.

therefore if you want java1.5 just make sure you have 1.4 as well
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[kernelcowboy]

Thanks. Indeed emergeing with a 1.4 vm was the key.

However, why wouldn't there be a bug listed for the commons--pool ebuild? Should there be one stating 'Doesn't compile with 1.5 - enum.'

incidentally, it doesn't seem like a tough problem to fix in an open source system? are the maintainers just really back logged, or are the commons-pool dev's not able to rename enum and release their code? or, i'm i really in the dark here?

thanks

[GJtje]

Java5 is a major change, that's why. They wrote their code for 1.4 not 1.5.

[alistair]

[kernelcowboy]

[AllenJB]

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