Setting "-target" and "-source" [SOLVED]

[Cabhan]

Hey all. I'm having an issue emerging dev-java/jakarta-regexp, and though I've found a solution, I can't understand how to go about it.

The issue is documented at:

http://forums.gentoo.org//viewtopic-...1f58636787aee4

Following the link in the last post there, the solution is to set "-source".

I have absolutely no idea what this means or how to go about it. Can anyone tell me how to do this and what a compatible value is?

Thanks!

[spencerf]

I think all you need to do is download a 1.4 version of JRE from sun page and then when you emerge type emerge sun-jre-specific version like 14.1334 (or whatever it is) This will tell portage to install this version instead of newest. Try that and then remerging your package.

[Cabhan]

And, as my problems tend to be, my error was in fact quite simple: I never "etc-update"d.

Righto.