Bug 1087450

Summary: icu4j: FTBFS with Java 8
Product: [Fedora] Fedora Reporter: Mikolaj Izdebski <mizdebsk>
Component: icu4jAssignee: Mat Booth <mat.booth>
Status: CLOSED RAWHIDE QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Version: rawhideCC: akurtako, dbhole, fnasser, krzysztof.daniel, mat.booth, msimacek, nsantos
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Fixed In Version: icu4j-54.1.1-1.fc22 Doc Type: Bug Fix
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Last Closed: 2014-11-17 17:22:06 UTC Type: Bug
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Description Mikolaj Izdebski 2014-04-14 10:48:30 UTC 
Description of problem:
Package icu4j fails to build with Java 8.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
52.1-2

A patch for this has just beed commited in Debian:

http://anonscm.debian.org/gitweb/?p=pkg-java/icu4j-4.4.git;a=commitdiff;h=9f7d06f

Additional info:

    [javac] Compiling 14 source files to /builddir/build/BUILD/icu4j-52.1/tools/build/out/bin 
    [javac] /builddir/build/BUILD/icu4j-52.1/tools/build/src/com/ibm/icu/dev/tool/docs/ICUTaglet.java:17: error: cannot find symbol 
    [javac] import com.sun.tools.doclets.internal.toolkit.taglets.TagletOutput; 
    [javac]                                                      ^ 
    [javac]   symbol:   class TagletOutput 
    [javac]   location: package com.sun.tools.doclets.internal.toolkit.taglets 
    [javac] /builddir/build/BUILD/icu4j-52.1/tools/build/src/com/ibm/icu/dev/tool/docs/ICUTaglet.java:104: error: cannot find symbol 
    [javac]     public TagletOutput getTagletOutput(Tag tag, TagletWriter writer) 
    [javac]            ^ 
    [javac]   symbol:   class TagletOutput 
    [javac]   location: class ICUTaglet 
    [javac] /builddir/build/BUILD/icu4j-52.1/tools/build/src/com/ibm/icu/dev/tool/docs/ICUTaglet.java:112: error: cannot find symbol 
    [javac]     public TagletOutput getTagletOutput(Doc holder, TagletWriter writer) 
    [javac]            ^ 
    [javac]   symbol:   class TagletOutput 
    [javac]   location: class ICUTaglet 
    [javac] /builddir/build/BUILD/icu4j-52.1/tools/build/src/com/ibm/icu/dev/tool/docs/ICUTaglet.java:107: error: cannot find symbol 
    [javac]         TagletOutput out = writer.getTagletOutputInstance(); 
    [javac]         ^ 
    [javac]   symbol:   class TagletOutput 
    [javac]   location: class ICUTaglet 
    [javac] /builddir/build/BUILD/icu4j-52.1/tools/build/src/com/ibm/icu/dev/tool/docs/ICUTaglet.java:107: error: cannot find symbol 
    [javac]         TagletOutput out = writer.getTagletOutputInstance(); 
    [javac]                                  ^ 
    [javac]   symbol:   method getTagletOutputInstance() 
    [javac]   location: variable writer of type TagletWriter 
    [javac] /builddir/build/BUILD/icu4j-52.1/tools/build/src/com/ibm/icu/dev/tool/docs/ICUTaglet.java:115: error: cannot find symbol 
    [javac]         TagletOutput out = writer.getTagletOutputInstance(); 
    [javac]         ^ 
    [javac]   symbol:   class TagletOutput 
    [javac]   location: class ICUTaglet 
    [javac] /builddir/build/BUILD/icu4j-52.1/tools/build/src/com/ibm/icu/dev/tool/docs/ICUTaglet.java:115: error: cannot find symbol 
    [javac]         TagletOutput out = writer.getTagletOutputInstance(); 
    [javac]                                  ^ 
    [javac]   symbol:   method getTagletOutputInstance() 
    [javac]   location: variable writer of type TagletWriter 
    [javac] Note: Some input files use unchecked or unsafe operations. 
    [javac] Note: Recompile with -Xlint:unchecked for details. 
    [javac] 7 errors
Comment 1 Yaakov Selkowitz 2014-06-13 21:45:21 UTC 
Alternatively, the upstream commit which removed this API may lend some clues as how to port the code:

http://hg.openjdk.java.net/jdk8/jdk8/langtools/rev/ca8808c88f94
Comment 2 Mat Booth 2014-11-17 17:22:06 UTC 
Fixed in rawhide:

http://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/buildinfo?buildID=593915