Re: It appears that ABCL is not ready for Java 9

I will add that the build warns not to use Java 9. It appears it should
fail right there.

On Wed, Sep 27, 2017 at 2:09 PM, Gregory Baryza <[email protected]> wrote:

> I am not a Java 9 expert either. I just installed and switched the value
> of JAVA_HOME to point to it. I ran ant under Windows 10 in the build
> directory and sent the output to a log file. That's all I know at the
> moment.
>
> On Wed, Sep 27, 2017 at 1:56 PM, Robert Goldman <[email protected]>
> wrote:
>
>> That's weird, because looking at this http://download.java.net/java/
>> jdk9/docs/api/java/net/URLClassLoader.html#getURLs-- (
>> http://preview.tinyurl.com/yat6a6oq), it looks like that method is still
>> supplied in Java 9.
>>
>> But I'm not a Java person at all, so I could easily be wrong about this.
>>
>>
>> On 27 Sep 2017, at 12:51, Gregory Baryza wrote:
>>
>> I tried compiling it and was presented with the following error:
>>>      ....
>>>      [java] ; Loading
>>> C:/Downloads/Armed_Bear_Lisp/abcl-src-1.5.0/build/classes/or
>>> g/armedbear/lisp/abcl-contrib.abcl
>>> ...
>>>      [java]
>>>      [java] ; Compilation unit finished
>>>      [java] ;   The following functions were used but not defined:
>>>      [java] ;     SYSTEM::SOURCE
>>>      [java]
>>>      [java] 311.988 seconds real time
>>>      [java] 249904041 cons cells
>>>      [java] JAVA-EXCEPTION: Java exception
>>> 'java.lang.NoSuchMethodException: No applicable method named getURLs
>>> found
>>> in java.lang.ClassLoader or
>>> jdk.internal.loader.ClassLoaders$AppClassLoader'.
>>>
>>> BUILD FAILED
>>> C:\Downloads\Armed_Bear_Lisp\abcl-src-1.5.0\build.xml:280: The following
>>> error occurred while executing this line:
>>> C:\Downloads\Armed_Bear_Lisp\abcl-src-1.5.0\build.xml:299: Java
>>> returned: -1
>>>
>>> Total time: 6 minutes 11 seconds
>>>
>>> It compiled successfully under JDK_1_8_0_144.  Has anyone else seen this?
>>>
>>
>