Re: Inconvertible types error in EnumSet.java

2008-03-20 Thread Andrew John Hughes
On 19/03/2008, Chris Burdess <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Robert Schuster wrote: > > >> Okay this is something that has confused me. classpath seems to have a > > >> dependency on jamvm, but jamvm seems to have a dependency on > > >> classpath. How is this not circular? > > >> > > > > > >

Re: Inconvertible types error in EnumSet.java

2008-03-19 Thread Robert Lougher
Hi, On 3/19/08, Trevor Harmon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Mar 19, 2008, at 8:22 AM, Dalibor Topic wrote: > > > There is a classpath installation in macports, it just needs someone > > using that platform to take care of it, and update it to 0.97.1. > > In fact, I'm working on the classpath pac

Re: Inconvertible types error in EnumSet.java

2008-03-19 Thread Trevor Harmon
On Mar 19, 2008, at 8:22 AM, Dalibor Topic wrote: There is a classpath installation in macports, it just needs someone using that platform to take care of it, and update it to 0.97.1. In fact, I'm working on the classpath packaging for the Fink project, and I'm trying to update it to 0.97.1.

Re: Inconvertible types error in EnumSet.java

2008-03-19 Thread Dalibor Topic
Robert Lougher wrote: Yes, there's a huge number of options. I wasn't advocating using JamVM, just giving an example of what I do :) I think we should simply encourage people to use the prebuilt glibj.zip file from builder for their respective version when bootstrapping Classpath on a new pl

Re: Inconvertible types error in EnumSet.java

2008-03-19 Thread Andrew Haley
Chris Burdess wrote: > Robert Schuster wrote: Okay this is something that has confused me. classpath seems to have a dependency on jamvm, but jamvm seems to have a dependency on classpath. How is this not circular? >>> It is circular. Such is life with Java (OpenJDK also nee

Re: Inconvertible types error in EnumSet.java

2008-03-19 Thread Chris Burdess
Robert Schuster wrote: > >> Okay this is something that has confused me. classpath seems to have a > >> dependency on jamvm, but jamvm seems to have a dependency on > >> classpath. How is this not circular? > >> > > > > It is circular. Such is life with Java (OpenJDK also needs a JDK to > > co

Re: Inconvertible types error in EnumSet.java

2008-03-19 Thread Robert Schuster
Hi. Andrew John Hughes schrieb: >> Okay this is something that has confused me. classpath seems to have a >> dependency on jamvm, but jamvm seems to have a dependency on >> classpath. How is this not circular? >> > > It is circular. Such is life with Java (OpenJDK also needs a JDK to > compil

Re: Inconvertible types error in EnumSet.java

2008-03-19 Thread Robert Lougher
Hi Dalibor, On 3/19/08, Dalibor Topic <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Trevor Harmon wrote: > > Okay this is something that has confused me. classpath seems to have a > > dependency on jamvm, but jamvm seems to have a dependency on > > classpath. How is this not circular? > You can pass in a prebuilt

Re: Inconvertible types error in EnumSet.java

2008-03-19 Thread Dalibor Topic
Trevor Harmon wrote: Okay this is something that has confused me. classpath seems to have a dependency on jamvm, but jamvm seems to have a dependency on classpath. How is this not circular? You can pass in a prebuilt glibj.zip to configure, without having to mess around with ecj on your target

Re: Inconvertible types error in EnumSet.java

2008-03-19 Thread Dalibor Topic
Robert Lougher wrote: P.S. Changing the subject, this is one of my concerns with the change to the VM interface for the new VM reflection classes. If JamVM moves to the new interface it breaks the ability to use JamVM/Classpath-0.92 as a bootstrap... I don't think that's a huge problem: *

Re: Inconvertible types error in EnumSet.java

2008-03-19 Thread Robert Lougher
Hi, On 3/19/08, Andrew John Hughes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Also, most distros should ship with old versions of Classpath and a VM > so you should be able to use that to run ecj (it doesn't require 1.5 > features, which is where the problem comes in). Likewise, you can > build pre-0.95 versi

Re: Inconvertible types error in EnumSet.java

2008-03-19 Thread Robert Lougher
Hi Andrew, On 3/19/08, Andrew John Hughes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 19/03/2008, Trevor Harmon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Mar 18, 2008, at 12:51 PM, Andreas Tobler wrote: > > > > > You need an ecj.tar > > > > > > What version of ecj do I need for the latest classpath? Is 3.1.2 good >

Re: Inconvertible types error in EnumSet.java

2008-03-19 Thread Andrew John Hughes
On 19/03/2008, Andrew John Hughes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 19/03/2008, Trevor Harmon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Mar 18, 2008, at 12:51 PM, Andreas Tobler wrote: > > > > > You need an ecj.tar > > > > > > What version of ecj do I need for the latest classpath? Is 3.1.2 good > >

Re: Inconvertible types error in EnumSet.java

2008-03-19 Thread Andrew John Hughes
On 19/03/2008, Trevor Harmon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Mar 18, 2008, at 12:51 PM, Andreas Tobler wrote: > > > You need an ecj.tar > > > What version of ecj do I need for the latest classpath? Is 3.1.2 good > enough? 3.2 works for definite. I seem to recall 3.1.2 working but don't quote me

Re: Inconvertible types error in EnumSet.java

2008-03-18 Thread Trevor Harmon
On Mar 18, 2008, at 12:51 PM, Andreas Tobler wrote: You need an ecj.tar What version of ecj do I need for the latest classpath? Is 3.1.2 good enough? and a working jamvm. Okay this is something that has confused me. classpath seems to have a dependency on jamvm, but jamvm seems to hav

Re: Inconvertible types error in EnumSet.java

2008-03-18 Thread Andreas Tobler
Andrew John Hughes wrote: On 17/03/2008, Trevor Harmon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi, I'm attempting to compile Classpath 0.97.1 on Mac OS X 10.5.2, which has Java 1.5.0_13 installed. My configure options are: --disable-dependency-tracking --disable-gtk-peer --disable-gconf-peer --disable-

Re: Inconvertible types error in EnumSet.java

2008-03-18 Thread Andrew John Hughes
On 18/03/2008, Trevor Harmon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Mar 17, 2008, at 3:24 AM, Andrew John Hughes wrote: > > >> In that case, the classpath sources should have the old jikes stuff > >> stripped out. There are still references to jikes that lead users > >> like > >> myself to think that

Re: Inconvertible types error in EnumSet.java

2008-03-18 Thread Trevor Harmon
On Mar 17, 2008, at 3:24 AM, Andrew John Hughes wrote: In that case, the classpath sources should have the old jikes stuff stripped out. There are still references to jikes that lead users like myself to think that jikes is still supported. For instance, the configure script still accepts the

Re: Inconvertible types error in EnumSet.java

2008-03-17 Thread Andrew John Hughes
On 17/03/2008, Trevor Harmon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Mar 17, 2008, at 1:53 AM, Ian Rogers wrote: > > > The jikes Java to bytecode compiler only supports Java 1.4 and has > > been unable to build Classpath since the introduction of generics in > > release 0.95 (April 23rd 2007). > > > In

Re: Inconvertible types error in EnumSet.java

2008-03-17 Thread Trevor Harmon
On Mar 17, 2008, at 1:53 AM, Ian Rogers wrote: The jikes Java to bytecode compiler only supports Java 1.4 and has been unable to build Classpath since the introduction of generics in release 0.95 (April 23rd 2007). In that case, the classpath sources should have the old jikes stuff stripp

Re: Inconvertible types error in EnumSet.java

2008-03-17 Thread Ian Rogers
Trevor Harmon wrote: On Mar 16, 2008, at 5:33 PM, Andrew John Hughes wrote: Version 1.5 of Sun's javac is broken. Please use an alternate compiler, such as ecj, or a newer version of javac, such as OpenJDK javac or the version that comes with JDK 1.6. What about jikes? I guess the 0.97.1 rel

Re: Inconvertible types error in EnumSet.java

2008-03-17 Thread Christian Thalinger
On Sun, 2008-03-16 at 17:50 -0700, Trevor Harmon wrote: > On Mar 16, 2008, at 5:33 PM, Andrew John Hughes wrote: > > > Version 1.5 of Sun's javac is broken. Please use an alternate > > compiler, such as ecj, or a newer version of javac, such as OpenJDK > > javac or the version that comes with JDK

Re: Inconvertible types error in EnumSet.java

2008-03-16 Thread Trevor Harmon
On Mar 16, 2008, at 5:33 PM, Andrew John Hughes wrote: Version 1.5 of Sun's javac is broken. Please use an alternate compiler, such as ecj, or a newer version of javac, such as OpenJDK javac or the version that comes with JDK 1.6. What about jikes? I guess the 0.97.1 release no longer works w

Re: Inconvertible types error in EnumSet.java

2008-03-16 Thread Andrew John Hughes
On 17/03/2008, Trevor Harmon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > I'm attempting to compile Classpath 0.97.1 on Mac OS X 10.5.2, which > has Java 1.5.0_13 installed. My configure options are: > > --disable-dependency-tracking --disable-gtk-peer --disable-gconf-peer > --disable-plugin --enable-j