Kiyo Inaba wrote:
Hi Kiyo,
But right now, there are four sub-configure in 'kaffe/kaffevm
/boehm-gc/boehm', 'external/gcc/fastjar', 'libltdl' and 'libraries
/javalib/external/classpath', and do you mean this KAFFE_CFLAGS
trick is just needed for classpath?
I believe that was the case back then, yeah.
There is also the external/gcc/zlib code, that should be removed, and we
could slash gjdoc,
and other merged in code as well.
Would cross-compiling classpath first, and then kaffe on top of the
cross-compiled classpath build
work for you? I think that's how it works for JamVM & Cacao, and it
seems to work well, judging
by how far in terms of platform support they've come.
It is something what Jim said as 'staying small' or smaller approach.
Theoretically, if entire build can be made with cross compiling, just
making sub part of the entire build can also be made. Of course I've
not yet tested. But (if I understand correctly), cross-compilation
should not be the issue, but just 'separate compilation' should be
the matter you want mention, am I right?
Yeah, basically we'd move away from building everything at once (and
having to merge
all the external code in continuously, and deal with it in our build
system), to a model where
cross-compiling kaffe is a sequence of separate compilations to be
performed in a specific order
(which is what our current build system does, implicitely).
Anyway, I try to separate classpath build from the entire kaffe
build, and let you know when finish.
Great, thank you!
By the way, I personally prefer current approach of 'simply type
configure once, make once, and make check (to see whether kaffe
still works)'...
# Of course, if it does not introduce any further headache ;-)
I think the split approach has its advantages as well: it reduces the
turn-around times for
VM builds, as you'd only need to rebuild the VM, rather than the VM +
class library.
cheers,
dalibor topic
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