Hi, As the title says app-text/jabref-2.5_beta doesn't compile with java dev-java/sun-jdk 1.5.0.18 and fails with (see below). After installing dev-java/sun-jdk-1.6.0.13 it compiled without problems. thanks. compile: [mkdir] Created dir: /var/tmp/portage/app-text/jabref-2.5_beta/work/jabref-2.5b/build/classes [javac] Compiling 496 source files to /var/tmp/portage/app-text/jabref-2.5_beta/work/jabref-2.5b/build/classes [javac] /var/tmp/portage/app-text/jabref-2.5_beta/work/jabref-2.5b/src/java/net/sf/jabref/net/URLDownload.java:12: cannot find symbol [javac] symbol : class CookieManager [javac] location: package java.net [javac] import java.net.CookieManager; [javac] ^ [javac] /var/tmp/portage/app-text/jabref-2.5_beta/work/jabref-2.5b/src/java/net/sf/jabref/imports/IEEEXploreFetcher.java:309: cannot find symbol [javac] symbol : method isEmpty() [javac] location: class java.lang.String [javac] if (!month.isEmpty()) { [javac] ^ [javac] /var/tmp/portage/app-text/jabref-2.5_beta/work/jabref-2.5b/src/java/net/sf/jabref/imports/IEEEXploreFetcher.java:317: cannot find symbol [javac] symbol : method isEmpty() [javac] location: class java.lang.String [javac] if (mm.group(3).isEmpty()) { [javac] ^ [javac] /var/tmp/portage/app-text/jabref-2.5_beta/work/jabref-2.5b/src/java/net/sf/jabref/imports/IEEEXploreFetcher.java:318: cannot find symbol [javac] symbol : method isEmpty() [javac] location: class java.lang.String [javac] if (!mm.group(2).isEmpty()) { [javac] ^ [javac] /var/tmp/portage/app-text/jabref-2.5_beta/work/jabref-2.5b/src/java/net/sf/jabref/imports/IEEEXploreFetcher.java:320: cannot find symbol [javac] symbol : method isEmpty() [javac] location: class java.lang.String [javac] if (!mm.group(1).isEmpty()) { [javac] ^ [javac] /var/tmp/portage/app-text/jabref-2.5_beta/work/jabref-2.5b/src/java/net/sf/jabref/imports/IEEEXploreFetcher.java:326: cannot find symbol [javac] symbol : method isEmpty() [javac] location: class java.lang.String [javac] } else if (mm.group(2).isEmpty()) { [javac] ^ [javac] /var/tmp/portage/app-text/jabref-2.5_beta/work/jabref-2.5b/src/java/net/sf/jabref/imports/IEEEXploreFetcher.java:327: cannot find symbol [javac] symbol : method isEmpty() [javac] location: class java.lang.String [javac] if (!mm.group(4).isEmpty()) { [javac] ^ [javac] /var/tmp/portage/app-text/jabref-2.5_beta/work/jabref-2.5b/src/java/net/sf/jabref/imports/IEEEXploreFetcher.java:576: cannot find symbol [javac] symbol : method isEmpty() [javac] location: class java.lang.String [javac] if (!year.isEmpty()) { [javac] ^ [javac] /var/tmp/portage/app-text/jabref-2.5_beta/work/jabref-2.5b/src/java/net/sf/jabref/net/URLDownload.java:38: cannot find symbol [javac] symbol : class CookieManager [javac] location: class net.sf.jabref.net.URLDownload [javac] cm = new CookieManager(); [javac] ^ [javac] Note: Some input files use unchecked or unsafe operations. [javac] Note: Recompile with -Xlint:unchecked for details. [javac] 9 errors BUILD FAILED /var/tmp/portage/app-text/jabref-2.5_beta/work/jabref-2.5b/build.xml:125: Compile failed; see the compiler error output for details. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. 2. 3.
Raised the dependency to 1.6, thanks for reporting.
