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

I'm not classloader-competent but I'll see what I can do. Don't anyone wait
for me; it may take a while.

On Wed, Sep 27, 2017 at 2:26 PM, Alessio Stalla <[email protected]>
wrote:

> The issue is that in Java 9 the platform classloader is not an
> URLClassLoader anymore. It was never specified to be one, but it happened
> to be so in all widely used implementations.
>
> Il 27 set 2017 20:13, "Gregory Baryza" <[email protected]> ha scritto:
>
>> 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?
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>
>>