building native image with graalvm ce 21 not working

[skateball]

Hi colleagues,
as already talked to Marc

• building the native image with graalvm ce 17 is working fine
• building the native image with graalvm ce 21 is not working
  Best Regards
  Chr

[beckermarc]

Unfortunately there is a bug in GraalVM 17, that was fixed by Oracle in GraalVM 21 (see oracle/graal#6457). To make it work on 17 we added a custom native-image.properties configuration, that has the same effect as the fix automatically applied on GraalVM 21. However on GraalVM 21 this configuration clashes with the provided fix and produces an error.

As SFlight uses Java 17 by default, I would like to keep it compatible with GraalVM 17 by default. If you want to run with 21 you need to remove the native-image.properties file before building the application (make sure to add clean to your Maven build command, if built previously). Then it works with GraalVM 21.