KJC and GNU Classpath

1999-12-28 Thread Vincent GAY-PARA
Hi, At DMS we tried to compile GNU Classpath with KJC (http://www.dms.at/kjc) and we encoutered some problems. First of all, we were not able to properly generate the makefiles from the CVS repository. Here is what we did on an intel station with RH6.1: vgp% cvs co classpath vgp% cd classpath

Re: KJC and GNU Classpath

1999-12-28 Thread Brian Jones
Vincent GAY-PARA [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hi, At DMS we tried to compile GNU Classpath with KJC (http://www.dms.at/kjc) and we encoutered some problems. First of all, we were not able to properly generate the makefiles from the CVS repository. Here is what we did on an intel station

Re: KJC and GNU Classpath

1999-12-28 Thread Mark Wielaard
Hi, On Tue, Dec 28, 1999 at 05:35:44PM +0100, Vincent GAY-PARA wrote: First of all, we were not able to properly generate the makefiles from the CVS repository. [...] we tried by hand but we encoutered the following problems: command: cd classpath/lib; java -mx12800 at.dms.kjc.Main

Re: BUG: Missing NumberFormat.format() (using DecimalFormat from libgcj)

1999-12-28 Thread Aaron M. Renn
Mark Wielaard ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: java.text.NumberFromat is missing a public final format(Object obj, StringBuffer sb, FieldPosition pos) method. (Since it is not very clearly documented I just made a choice to format Doubles/Floats as doubles and all other Numbers as longs. See the

JNI vs. CNI (was Re: Announcement: libgcj and GNU Classpath merge

1999-12-28 Thread Aaron M. Renn
Jochen Hoenicke ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: I have invented an ad hoc abstract language and have transformed the natInflate.cc from libgcj (java.util.zip.Inflate). I have used the prefix JCL_ for the pseudo methods. I haven't implemented everything, yet, only what I needed for Inflater. See:

Re: BUG: Missing NumberFormat.format() (using DecimalFormat from libgcj)

1999-12-28 Thread Mark Wielaard
Hi, On Tue, Dec 28, 1999 at 05:00:37PM -0600, Aaron M. Renn wrote: Mark Wielaard ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: java.text.NumberFromat is missing a public final [...] Did these patches get applied? This is part of where I think we might want to look at using the gjc implementation, because

Re: Coding style etc

1999-12-28 Thread Aaron M. Renn
Bryce McKinlay ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: gcj cannot yet compile classpath from source code, because it cannot handle inner or anonymous classes. Work on these and other "JDK-1.1" features is in progress. In the mean time, gcj should be able to compile most of classpath with the aid of an

Re: Announcement: libgcj and GNU Classpath merge

1999-12-28 Thread Aaron M. Renn
Tom Tromey ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: libgcj is very portable (though perhaps not widely ported). It can run on systems without a filesystem, for instance. I can't speak for Classpath, but I can say that libgcj's goal is and will continue to be portability to a wide variety of systems

Re: Announcement: libgcj and GNU Classpath merge

1999-12-28 Thread Aaron M. Renn
Bernd Kreimeier ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: One of the implications of Java for free software is that it could eventually make large inroads into Win32/other non-UNIX. Vice versa, Java applications might minimize the migration pains for GUI intensive apps, from non-UNIX to Linux. Is GNU/Linux

Re: Coding style etc

1999-12-28 Thread Anthony Green
Aaron wrote: This is interesting. When does gjc plan to support inner classes? These are absolutely needed to implement parts of the API. The work is going on right now. It won't be too much longer. AG -- Anthony Green Cygnus Solutions

Re: I need your help!

1999-12-28 Thread Aaron M. Renn
Mark Wielaard ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: I just looked at the 1.1.8 classlist URL:http://java.sun.com/products/jdk/1.1/docs/relnotes/classlist.html And the only classes missing from the current Classpath CVS seem to be: java.applet.* I finally got around to checking this package in! --

Re: I need your help!

1999-12-28 Thread Aaron M. Renn
Bryce McKinlay ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: java.awt.image.ColorModel java.awt.image.DirectColorModel java.text.DecimalFormat Hmm, libgcj has a good DecimalFormat implementation... That's why I didn't write it! I finall got to the end of java.text and basically said it was ridiculous for

[Patch] kaffe-config.in

1999-12-28 Thread Brian Jones
I would have attempted to create a real patch here but I couldn't access the readonly cvs at cvs.kaffe.org because the name wasn't resolving for me. I've attached a text file which is just a simple script to be created by autoconf at configure time and included in the scripts to be installed in