--- a/make/nashorn/project.properties	Wed Sep 27 14:56:19 2017 +0200
+++ b/make/nashorn/project.properties	Wed Sep 27 18:40:37 2017 +0530
@@ -32,8 +32,6 @@
 
 # source and target levels
 build.compiler=modern
-javac.source=1.9
-javac.target=1.9
 
 javadoc.option=\
     -tag "implSpec:a:Implementation Requirements:" \
@@ -146,7 +144,7 @@
     ${file.reference.bsh.jar}${path.separator}\
     ${file.reference.snakeyaml.jar}
 
-test.module.imports=\
+test.module.imports.compile.time=\
     --add-exports jdk.scripting.nashorn/jdk.nashorn.internal.ir=ALL-UNNAMED \
     --add-exports jdk.scripting.nashorn/jdk.nashorn.internal.codegen=ALL-UNNAMED \
     --add-exports jdk.scripting.nashorn/jdk.nashorn.internal.parser=ALL-UNNAMED \
@@ -159,7 +157,10 @@
     --add-exports jdk.scripting.nashorn/jdk.nashorn.internal.runtime.regexp=ALL-UNNAMED \
     --add-exports jdk.scripting.nashorn/jdk.nashorn.internal.runtime.regexp.joni=ALL-UNNAMED \
     --add-exports jdk.scripting.nashorn/jdk.nashorn.tools=ALL-UNNAMED \
-    --add-exports java.base/jdk.internal.org.objectweb.asm=ALL-UNNAMED \
+    --add-exports java.base/jdk.internal.org.objectweb.asm=ALL-UNNAMED
+
+test.module.imports.runtime=\
+    ${test.module.imports.compile.time} \
     --add-opens jdk.scripting.nashorn/jdk.nashorn.internal.runtime=ALL-UNNAMED \
     --add-opens jdk.scripting.nashorn/jdk.nashorn.internal.runtime.doubleconv=ALL-UNNAMED
 
@@ -359,7 +360,7 @@
 
 run.test.jvmargs.common=\
   -server \
-  ${test.module.imports} \
+  ${test.module.imports.runtime} \
   ${run.test.jvmargs.external} \
   --add-modules jdk.scripting.nashorn.shell \
   ${nashorn.override.option} \