[Tinyos-help] [TinyOs Help] TinyOs on Red Hat EL4

[Philip Levis]

On Jul 7, 2006, at 7:43 AM, Marcus Phillips wrote:

> I am trying to install and run tinyos on Red Hat EL4. I get most of  
> the way through the installation, but a series of errors about enum.
>
> an example is
>
> /opt/tinyos-1.x/tools/java/net/tinyos/sim/event/SimEventBus.java: 
> 180: as of release 1.5, 'enum' is a keyword, and may not be used as  
> an identifier
> (try -source 1.4 or lower to use 'enum' as an identifier)
> Enumeration enum = getEventListeners().elements();
>
>
> I have installedIBMJava2-142-ia32-SDK -1.4.2-5.0.i386.rpm and  
> IBMJava2-JAVACOMM-1.4.2-5.0.i386.rpm, as the webpage ordered. I  
> believe the java compiler (javac) is the cause of these errors.  
> However, I cannot add the -source 1.4, as the compiler is being  
> called from within the rpm.
>
> Any help working around this issue would be greatly appreciated.
>

enum was made a Java keyword in 1.5, I believe. So if you are  
encountering this issue, then the RPM is invoking a 1.5 javac. You  
probably have one on your system.

Phil