Wes Biggs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Is it not possible to have makefiles for both javac and guavac? Aaron,
> what in your code won't work with javac?
>
> >From the brief notes on the guavac page it looks like Cygnus might be
> working toward a gcc-based java compiler. Does anyone have any more
> details on this?
>
> On second thought: Should classpath be providing a written-in-java javac
> implementation as well (OK, not right now, but at some point down the
> line)? That would make sense if the Japhar/Classpath master plan is to
> fully replace dependencies on Javasoft products. (IMO guavac is good, but
> it does suffer from platform constraints more than a pure-java
> implementation like javac does.)
>
> Since guavac is already C++, would there be any benefit in trying to
> convert it to java?
>
> Open to your flames...
>
> Wes
Wes,
My thoughts were that to avoid a chicken and the egg problem some
non-Java based byte compiler like guavac would be useful. The gcj
project Cygnus worked on is the compiler you're talking about. It is
supposed to be included with gcc in the near future but can be
downloaded separately already. I've not tried it.
As to configuration, I think it should be possible to create a
directive for automake kind of like CXX, etc. but named JAVAC which
could be configured to whatever compiler the build host has.
Brian
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