Re: [Libguestfs] [PATCH 3/5] java: Turn off doclint to prevent errors on JDK 8

Pino Toscano
2015-02-09T13:27:19Z

On Monday 09 February 2015 11:06:17 Margaret Lewicka
wrote:
> On JDK 8, doclint is enabled by default with strict validation of HTML
> tags, which causes the build to fail. See
> http://blog.joda.org/2014/02/turning-off-doclint-in-jdk-8-javadoc.html
> ---
>  java/Makefile.am | 2 +-
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/java/Makefile.am b/java/Makefile.am
> index fa5b45c..a76a9d1 100644
> --- a/java/Makefile.am
> +++ b/java/Makefile.am
> @@ -68,7 +68,7 @@ clean-local:
>  if HAVE_JAVA
>
>  JAVAC_FLAGS = $(EXTRA_JAVAC_FLAGS) -encoding utf-8
> -JAVADOC_FLAGS = -encoding utf-8
> +JAVADOC_FLAGS = -encoding utf-8 -Xdoclint:none

I'd say it would be much better to fix the issues doclint issues,
if possible, rather than disabling all of them.

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Pino Toscano