Avro 1.7.5 fails to build with OpenJDK 8 in Fedora 21 (Rawhide) $ rpm -q java-1.8.0-openjdk-devel java-1.8.0-openjdk-devel-1.8.0.0-1.0.b132.fc21.x86_64 $ java -version openjdk version "1.8.0" OpenJDK Runtime Environment (build 1.8.0-b132) OpenJDK 64-Bit Server VM (build 25.0-b70, mixed mode) Upstream bug: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/AVRO-1489
Fixed in avro-1.7.5-6.fc21 in Rawhide
Fixed in avro-1.7.5-6
I believe that this bug is fixed in avro-1.7.5-6, which is available in Fedora Rawhide, so I am closing this bug now. The build containing the fix can be found at Koji: http://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/buildinfo?buildID=508150