Agreed. With Sun's JDK 1.2.2 I've compiled 1498 source files in a single build on NT 4.0, it took 3 minutes 48 seconds...
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Build ~400+ files only breaks on Win32 if you use Jikes. With Sun JDK you > don't > go via exec so all is OK. Anyway, a patch was sent in a while ago for the > jikes > method which splits the build job into chunks, thereby working around the > problem - can't remember if it was commited though. > > I compile 540+ files w/o any problems on Win32 + Sun JDK 1.3.0. > > :E > > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] on 21/07/2000 02:28 GMT > > Please respond to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > > |---------> > | | > |---------> > > >---------------------------------------------------------------------------> > | > | > > >---------------------------------------------------------------------------> > >-------------------------------------------| > | | > >-------------------------------------------| > |---------> > |To: | > |---------> > > >---------------------------------------------------------------------------> > |[EMAIL PROTECTED] | > > >---------------------------------------------------------------------------> > >-------------------------------------------| > | | > | | > >-------------------------------------------| > |---------> > |cc: | > |---------> > > >---------------------------------------------------------------------------> > | (bcc: Eric Mountain/NCE/AMADEUS) > | > > >---------------------------------------------------------------------------> > >-------------------------------------------| > | | > | | > >-------------------------------------------| > |---------> > | | > |---------> > > >---------------------------------------------------------------------------> > | > | > > >---------------------------------------------------------------------------> > >-------------------------------------------| > | | > >-------------------------------------------| > |---------> > |Subject: | > |---------> > > >---------------------------------------------------------------------------> > |Re: Build tool decision ** > | > > >---------------------------------------------------------------------------> > >-------------------------------------------| > | | > >-------------------------------------------| > > On Thu, 20 Jul 2000, Vijay Raghavan wrote: > > So here is the question: > > Does ANT have any known stability issues? Is there a problem with, say, > > compiling thousands of Java files at a time. > > Well some of my builds go for about 6 hours and include > close to 100 targets. This is running on with 128 MB memory. Most > of these targets aren't javac stype targets thou (mainly > java targets). > > > Can someone give me a feel for the size of projects ANT has been tried > > with? > > The largest build of java files I have seen is about 1200 > .java files and this works fine on linux with jikes. I heard > it brakes on win32 thou. I believe comments have been in > list archive. Basically it broke sending more than 400 > parameters to commandline program. This can be fixed but is > yet to be (unless done it latest exec work). > > Cheers, > > Pete > > *--------------------------------------------------* > | Latrobe University, | | > | Bundoora, Australia | Does the name 'Pavlov' | > | Office: PW220 | ring a bell ? | > | Ex: 2503 | | > *--------------------------------------------------*
