Build Fail Chromium for Android

[William Mitchell Jr]

System: Debian Sid

Kernel: 4.12

CPU: x86_64

When building Chromium for Android, I received the following error:

../../base/android/java/src/org/chromium/base/Promise.java:91: error: cannot find symbol

        Callback<Exception> onReject = reason -> {

                                       ^

  symbol:   method metafactory(Lookup,String,MethodType,MethodType,MethodHandle,MethodType)

  location: interface LambdaMetafactory

Fatal Error: Unable to find method metafactory

[25/24804] ACTION //chrome/browser/metrics:expired_histograms_array(//build/toolchain/android:android_clang_arm)

ninja: build stopped: subcommand failed.

WM

[William Mitchell Jr]

Afiter 'git-rebase-update && gclient sync' yesterday, now building without failure but with 51 compiler warnings. I did not touch my build system.

[William Mitchell Jr]

Build failure with the same error. This time I manually re-configured java with 'update-alternatives --config java' and 'update-alternatives --config javac' and all is well.

[Oleg Beletski]

My build was failing with the same error. Reason was in not properly configured java setup.  "java" and "javac" binaries were from java 1.8 and "jar" binary was taken from 1.7 and all libraries from 1.7 as well. Please make sure that path variable point correct "jar" executable.

[Satoshi Goto]

Me too, I cannot build with 62.0.3202.84

[Satoshi Goto]

Ok, solved the problem, do this and hcange to java 8

sudo update-alternatives --config java

sudo update-alternatives --config javac

sudo update-alternatives --config jar

sudo update-alternatives --config jarsigner
sudo update-alternatives --config javaws
sudo update-alternatives --config javap