Please support building on Java 9

[FauxFaux]

Java 9 is to be released in 30 days. Currently, bouncy-castle works fine on it (as far as I'm aware), but doesn't compile from source due to some trivial changes.

After fixing these, however, the ant build fails to generate the javadoc on my machine. I do not understand why. Someone more familiar with ant/the ant build could have a look.

Cheers.

• -source 1.5 and -target 1.5 are no longer supported. 1.6 is the minimum.

diff --git a/ant/jdk15+.xml b/ant/jdk15+.xml
index d43ea8160..ccefee4a4 100644
--- a/ant/jdk15+.xml
+++ b/ant/jdk15+.xml
@@ -2,8 +2,8 @@

 <project name="crypto1.5" default="build" basedir="..">

-    <property name="bc.javac.source" value="1.5" />
-    <property name="bc.javac.target" value="1.5" />
+    <property name="bc.javac.source" value="1.6" />
+    <property name="bc.javac.target" value="1.6" />
     <property name="build.dir" value="build" />
     <property name="jdk.name" value="jdk1.5" />
     <property name="artifacts.dir" value="${build.dir}/artifacts/${jdk.name}" />

• SecureRandom, which we extend, has gained an ambiguous overload for reseed.

diff --git a/prov/src/main/java/org/bouncycastle/jcajce/provider/drbg/DRBG.java b/prov/src/main/java/org/bouncycastle/jcajce/provider/drbg/DRBG.java
index e9fe38323..c1efe7c35 100644
--- a/prov/src/main/java/org/bouncycastle/jcajce/provider/drbg/DRBG.java
+++ b/prov/src/main/java/org/bouncycastle/jcajce/provider/drbg/DRBG.java
@@ -259,7 +259,7 @@ public void setSeed(long seed)
                 if (seedAvailable.getAndSet(false))
                 {
                     samples.set(0);
-                    drbg.reseed(null);
+                    drbg.reseed((byte[]) null);
                 }
             }

[hxl9654]

+1

[dghgit]

I'm closing this as I think the gradle build is probably now the way to deal with this. Basic BC with ant is still compiled using 1.8 with the multi-release facility used to add additional functionality.