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Build problems against jdk1.5

           Summary: Build problems against jdk1.5
           Product: BCEL
           Version: 5.1
          Platform: PC
        OS/Version: Other
            Status: NEW
          Severity: Normal
          Priority: Other
         Component: Main
        AssignedTo: [email protected]
        ReportedBy: [email protected]


There are two apparent problems. The first is that BCEL's "Deprecated" class
has a name clash with the new "Deprecated" interface in java.lang, which first
appeared in jdk1.5. Two obvious solutions to this are to (1) rename BCEL's
class to something like "DeprecatedAttr" (which would break source that used
this class) or (2) change all internal references to "Deprecated" to the
fully qualified class name "org.apache.bcel.classfile.Deprecated".

The second is much more minor. In "build.xml" the "jar" target depends on
the "examples" target. Shouldn't it depend on "compile" (or perhaps "test").
In the "jar" target build instructions, there is also a mandatory dependency
on the file "manifest.txt" it seems like this should be optional. If not
present, let "jar" itself generate a Manifest.