Bugzilla Bug 158720

betelgeuse@pena ~/test/java $ java -version
java version "1.6.0"
Java(TM) SE Runtime Environment (build 1.6.0-b105)
Java HotSpot(TM) Server VM (build 1.6.0-b105, mixed mode)
betelgeuse@pena ~/test/java $ javadoc -source 1.3 Hello.java
Loading source file Hello.java...
Hello.java:3: as of release 1.4, 'assert' is a keyword, and may not be used as
an identifier
(use -source 1.3 or lower to use 'assert' as an identifier)
        private void assert(){;}
                     ^
1 error
betelgeuse@pena ~/test/java $ cat Hello.java
public class Hello
{
        private void assert(){;}
        public static void main(String[] args)
        {
                System.out.println("Hello World!");
        }
}

This makes old packages fail when trying to build javadocs using sun-jdk-1.6. I
reported this upstream so let's see what happens.

Would be nice if they also respected -source <=1.4 and enum keyword :( same
issue, but happens in 1.5 too, I think.

Same seems to happen with sun-jdk-1.7 from experimental-overlay.

(In reply to comment #1)
> Would be nice if they also respected -source <=1.4 and enum keyword :( same
> issue, but happens in 1.5 too, I think.

was wrong, 1.5 is fine

Aihe: 6507179: javadoc -source 1.3 does not work with jdk6
Päiväys: Fri, 30 Mar 2007 15:38:41 -0700
Lähettäjä: Mark Reinhold <mr@sun.com>
Vastaanottaja: betelgeuse@gentoo.org
CC: scott.seligman@sun.com, tom.marble@sun.com

Petteri,

A fix for the javadoc bug in Sun's JDK that you asked me about was
checked in today and will show up in 6u2, due to ship in June.

Scott Seligman (cc'd) did the actual work -- thanks Scott!

- Mark

Seems to be fixed (tried it with assert) in sun-jdk-1.6.0.02_alpha02 that's in
java-experimental overlay. That confirms the resolution of upstream bug.

1.7 (recent sun-jdk-1.7.0.0_alpha11) is still broken though... might be useful
to report it too.

1.6.0.02 fixes this and I removed all the work around dependency atoms.