Re: Removing the TARGET_* layer or not ?

2004-08-06 Thread Mark Wielaard
Hi, BTW for people who have no idea what this is actually about please read about the TARGET layer in native/target/readme.txt (GNU Classpath CVS). Autoconfiscating is explained in The Goat Book: http://sources.redhat.com/autobook/autobook/autobook_237.html On Fri, 2004-08-06 at 07:47,

Re: Removing the TARGET_* layer or not ?

2004-08-06 Thread Andy Walter
Hi, I'm sorry for the trouble which was caused by the target layer. Actually, I'm quite surprised about the massive critique now. When we asked to check it in more than one year ago, there was very little feedback and the feedback we got was mainly quite positive. We are currently preparing

Classpath License, Phillosophy, and AICAS (was: Re: Removing the TARGET_* layer or not ?)

2004-08-06 Thread Steven Augart
Andy Walter wrote: Some of the native interfaces we are using here are even more complicated than the embOS one, because they are for special operating systems which are only used internally in a customer's company, but not publicly available as a product. Those systems would probably be of

Re: Removing the TARGET_* layer or not ?

2004-08-04 Thread Ingo Prötel
Hi, Roman Kennke wrote: Am Di, den 03.08.2004 schrieb Ingo Prötel um 15:39: Hi Michael, Michael Koch wrote: Hi list, hi Ingo, I just started porting/testing GNU classpath to solaris (2.6). Its not really different to other unices (we currently support linux and *BSD) but some things are. When I

Re: Removing the TARGET_* layer or not ?

2004-08-04 Thread Andrew Haley
Ingo Prötel writes: Roman Kennke wrote: I have thought about how I would design this stuff in order to write portable code: 1. first of all, try to stick to POSIX standard stuff ;) 2. Of course there are situations where this won't do. In this case I would split out the

Re: Removing the TARGET_* layer or not ?

2004-08-04 Thread Michael Koch
Am Mittwoch, 4. August 2004 10:06 schrieb Ingo Prötel: Hi, Roman Kennke wrote: Am Di, den 03.08.2004 schrieb Ingo Prötel um 15:39: Hi Michael, Michael Koch wrote: Hi list, hi Ingo, I just started porting/testing GNU classpath to solaris (2.6). Its not really different to other

Re: Removing the TARGET_* layer or not ?

2004-08-04 Thread Ingo Prötel
Hi Michael, Michael Koch wrote: Am Dienstag, 3. August 2004 15:39 schrieb Ingo Prötel: Hi Michael, Michael Koch wrote: Hi list, hi Ingo, I just started porting/testing GNU classpath to solaris (2.6). Its not really different to other unices (we currently support linux and *BSD) but some things

Re: Removing the TARGET_* layer or not ?

2004-08-04 Thread Ingo Prötel
Michael Koch wrote: Am Mittwoch, 4. August 2004 10:06 schrieb Ingo Prötel: Hi, Roman Kennke wrote: Am Di, den 03.08.2004 schrieb Ingo Prötel um 15:39: Hi Michael, Michael Koch wrote: Hi list, hi Ingo, I just started porting/testing GNU classpath to solaris (2.6). Its not really different to

Re: Removing the TARGET_* layer or not ?

2004-08-04 Thread Michael Koch
Am Mittwoch, 4. August 2004 18:15 schrieb Ingo Prötel: I'm not a friend of this one-OS-one-dir approach. I would more test for features with autoconf and use the features if present. This makes it more easy to port to another arch. When the feature is available there, use it. If not, add

Removing the TARGET_* layer or not ?

2004-08-03 Thread Michael Koch
Hi list, hi Ingo, I just started porting/testing GNU classpath to solaris (2.6). Its not really different to other unices (we currently support linux and *BSD) but some things are. When I wanted to do the needed changes I stumbled over the TARGET_* layer which adds (in my eyes) some

Re: Removing the TARGET_* layer or not ?

2004-08-03 Thread Ingo Prtel
Hi Michael, Michael Koch wrote: Hi list, hi Ingo, I just started porting/testing GNU classpath to solaris (2.6). Its not really different to other unices (we currently support linux and *BSD) but some things are. When I wanted to do the needed changes I stumbled over the TARGET_* layer which

Re: Removing the TARGET_* layer or not ?

2004-08-03 Thread Michael Koch
Am Dienstag, 3. August 2004 15:39 schrieb Ingo Prötel: Hi Michael, Michael Koch wrote: Hi list, hi Ingo, I just started porting/testing GNU classpath to solaris (2.6). Its not really different to other unices (we currently support linux and *BSD) but some things are. When I wanted

Re: Removing the TARGET_* layer or not ?

2004-08-03 Thread Michael Koch
Am Dienstag, 3. August 2004 15:39 schrieb Ingo Prötel: Hi Michael, Michael Koch wrote: Hi list, hi Ingo, I just started porting/testing GNU classpath to solaris (2.6). Its not really different to other unices (we currently support linux and *BSD) but some things are. When I wanted