[Android-tools-devel] advice on android-framework-23

[Hans-Christoph Steiner]

Hans-Christoph Steiner:
> 
> 
> Emmanuel Bourg:
>> Le 27/01/2019 à 21:12, Hans-Christoph Steiner a écrit :
>>
>>> I have been building with these options in gradle:
>>>
>>>   sourceCompatibility = 1.8
>>>   targetCompatibility = 1.8
>>>
>>> And that doesn't solve the problem of the new "patch module" stuff added
>>> in Java9.  That means you have to do some extra tricks to build parts of
>>> Java itself.  The android.jar is the SDK jar, so it includes lots of
>>> java.* classes.  This is the stuff that is stumping us.
>>
>> Setting the source/target isn't enough. You have to set the new javac
>> --release flag.
> 
> I added this to debian/build.gradle:
> 
> 
> allprojects {
>     gradle.projectsEvaluated {
>         tasks.withType(JavaCompile) {
>             sourceCompatibility = JavaVersion.VERSION_1_8
>             targetCompatibility = JavaVersion.VERSION_1_8
>             options.encoding = 'UTF-8'
>             options.compilerArgs.addAll(['--release', '8'])
>         }
>     }
> }
> 
> 
> And it still fails with lots and lots of errors like:
> 
> 
> /export/share/code/android-tools-team/android-framework-23/libcore/libart/src/main/java/java/lang/AbstractStringBuilder.java:18:
> error: package exists in another module: java.base
> package java.lang;
> ^
> 
> Its this stuff:
> https://openjdk.java.net/jeps/261

The call that is crashing out with all those errors is the doclava call.
 I think there needs to be a --patch-module option to java when running
doclava, but I'm not sure what the path arg for --patch-module should be
there.

.hc