The regression test

test/sun/rmi/rmic/newrmic/equivalence

fails with 1.5.0-beta-b32c, but not 1.5.0-beta-b35. The failure is caused by the fix for 4981566, which is present in b32c (for Tiger beta1) but not b35 (the fix for 4981566 hasn't made it into a beta2 promoted build yet).

The "-Xnew" implementation of rmic invokes javac with the command line option "-target 1.1", in order to generate version 45.3 class files, but no -source option. In Tiger, the default -source option is "-source 1.4". Prior to the 4981566 fix, javac would emit a warning when "-target 1.1" was used with an (explicit or implicit) "-source 1.4" option:

javac: source release 1.4 requires target release 1.4

but it would still generate class files of the selected target version anyway. With the 4981566 fix, javac no longer generates class files when this warning is emitted, and it causes "rmic -Xnew" to terminate with a non-zero exit status (and no compiled stub/skeleton classes, although perhaps stub/skeleton source files, if the "-keep[generated]" option was used).

javac does not support "-source 1.1" as an option, but it does appear to still support "-source 1.2" and "-source 1.3", and it appears that it still supports "-target 1.1" when either of those -source options are used. Therefore, changing the "rmic -Xnew" implementation to use "-source 1.2" or "-source 1.3" with its javac invocations should fix this bug.