[fedora-java] Still newbie: compiler crash, walk-arounds?

[Mikolaj Izdebski]

On 02/20/2015 06:50 PM, Alec Leamas wrote:
> Greetings,
> 
> Thanks for help  with last package. Trying a new one, get an interesting
> compiler crash (yes, the bug is filed since long).

What crash and which bug?

> The question: is there any sane way to use another version of javac than
> 1.8.0 to walk-around this until compiler upstream do their homework?

Are you using Maven? If yes then you can use Eclipse compiler; it's
documented here:
http://maven.apache.org/plugins/maven-compiler-plugin/non-javac-compilers.html

If not using Maven then you can call /usr/bin/ecj command directly.

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Mikolaj Izdebski
Software Engineer, Red Hat
IRC: mizdebsk