I've accidently used 1.4 (b52) as a bootstrap jdk for Merlin and the build
failed on this file:
...
es/java/util/prefs/FileSystemPreferencesFactory.java ../../../src/share/classes/java/util/logging/FileHandler.java ../../../src/share/classes/sun/misc/ClassReflector.java ; fi
../../../src/solaris/classes/java/util/prefs/FileSystemPreferences.java:703: unreachable statement
                   return new Long(_newModTime);;
                                                ^
../../../src/solaris/classes/java/util/prefs/FileSystemPreferences.java:694: missing return statement
               public Object run() {
                                   ^
2 errors
gnumake[3]: *** [.compile.classlist] Error 1
gnumake[3]: Leaving directory `/.automount/jano/root/export/disk06/java2d/Merlin.Int.ws/make/java/java'
gnumake[2]: *** [optimized] Error 2
gnumake[2]: Leaving directory `/.automount/jano/root/export/disk06/java2d/Merlin.Int.ws/make/java/java'
gnumake[1]: *** [all] Error 1
gnumake[1]: Leaving directory `/.automount/jano/root/export/disk06/java2d/Merlin.Int.ws/make/java'
gnumake: *** [all] Error 1

The bug is OS-generic.

dmitri.trembovetski@eng 2001-02-26