Brian Bassett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Brian Jones wrote:
> >
> > Some time ago someone mentioned they were working on a javac
> > replacement for a class assignment and I was wondering where that
> > stood at this point, or if someone knew of a free software replacement
> > suitable for use in building classpath.
>
> Well, Debian considers jikes to be free enough to include in the main
> part of the distribution. (And you know what sticklers for licenses we
> Debian folks are... ;) I'm working on getting Classpath to build using
> jikes.
>
> I just love bootstrapping issues... ;)
I don't think you should be running into any bootstrapping issues if
dependencies are correct. Although it has been a long time now, last
I looked jikes was just getting to the point where their dependencies
generation might be useful, but unfortunately it seems to want to
produce a dependency file in every source directory that isn't even
generic make compatible, just usable by jikes. I'll have to look at
it again soon to see what's new with jikes that might help in this
area or if they've changed their dependency generation any.
Brian
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Brian Jones <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
