On 4/12/06, Mark Hindess <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On 4/12/06, Weldon Washburn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >
> > On 4/12/06, Mark Hindess <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >
> > > 1) Copy the luni-kernel and security-kernel stubs and add
> > >   implementation rather than doing it in place.  The stubs are just for
> > >   compilation we shouldn't add anything VM (or VM adapter) specific to
> > >   them.
> >
> > hmm.... not sure what you are suggesting.  The stubs allow the build
> > to finish properly but the resultant binary won't run on any JVM
> > because the stubs are hollow.
>
> Exactly!  I'm saying we should leave them like that.

I agree with you.  This is good.  Have you thought about copying IBM
VME makefiles and modifying them for the purpose?  I am assuming these
makefiles are Apache licensed.

>
> We should copy the hollow stubs to a classpathadapter project tree and
> modify those rather than modifying the copies in the classlib project.
>
> Aside: Since classlib is just compiling against these stub, it doesn't
> really matter if we modify them to add classpath adapter specific
> implementation. But I think it might be confusing to others coming to
> implement these kernel classes for a different VM.  So we should keep
> them hollow and not make the classpath adapter "special".
>
> Then when we want to use the adapter, we overwrite the hollow stubs in
> the deploy directory.  As I said:
>
> > > I think we should be looking to create something, that when
> > > combined with JCHEVM, can be dropped in to the deploy tree in the
> > > same way that the current IBM VME is dropped in.

>
> HTH,
>  Mark.
>
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> Mark Hindess <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> IBM Java Technology Centre, UK.
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