On Fri, Feb 22, 2002 at 05:04:26PM +0100, Oskar Sandberg wrote:
> On Fri, Feb 22, 2002 at 02:05:00PM +0000, Simon Waters wrote:
> <>
> > I agree running on Kaffe is more important that compiling under
> > Kaffe, and given my recent experiences mastering autoconf and C
> > I shouldn't have been so hard on Kaffe, it probably my set up at
> > fault. A FREE Java implementation is a worthy goal, even if IBM
> > seem intent on giving better stuff away under more restrictive
> > licenses.
>
> I am a free software absolutist, so as long as I have a part in the
> development, Freenet should always build and run on free tools. It both
> builds and runs fine with the version of kaffe I am running, which I
> took out the cvs a couple of months ago. Typically I compile using using
> IBMs jikes compiler instead of kopi (which comes with kaffe) as it is
> also free software and better (to use jikes with kaffe you just need to
> install it and all add /usr/local/share/kaffe/Klasses.jar to your
> CLASSPATH variable - just avoid jikes 1.15, it is broken).
Except for inserting FEC splitfiles, which reliably doesn't work on Kaffe
ATM (a few megs, haven't tried big ones, that would be silly).
>
> Building freenet requires absolutely no scripts, simply move (or
> symlink) the source code (freenet dir in freenet/src/) into a directory
> that is in you add the the CLASSPATH, and then run each of the .java
> files through jikes. (This should be the way to handle all java
> software, but developers like my friends on this list want to make life
> difficult for people.)
>
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