On Sun, 31 Oct 2004, Dalibor Topic <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Stefan Bodewig <bodewig <at> apache.org> writes: >> >> Ant's bootstrap script can use jikes easily by setting the JAVAC >> environment variable. > > Ah, cool, I didn't know that. Since which version of ant is that the > case?
Hmm, the change has been made four years ago for the jpackage folks (who wanted to bootstrap using jikes ;-). So it in there since Ant 1.3. <http://cvs.apache.org/viewcvs.cgi/ant/bootstrap.sh?r1=1.22&r2=1.23> > Yes. the main reason is that kjc is not greedy wrt to resolving > missing classes, whereas most other compilers are, so people > naturally write build.xml files that don't work with kjc, which > needs to be fed all classes on the command line. Detecting those builds may be interesting in itself, but folks would be unlikely to change their build files - but rather tell you that kopi was broken. Cheers Stefan --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
