Re: RFH: compiling java with kaffe/jikes/ant

[Laszlo 'GCS' Boszormenyi <gcs@lsc.hu>]

Hi Dalibor,

* Dalibor Topic <robilad@kaffe.org> [2004-09-04 13:59:58 +0200]:
                         ^^^^^^^^^-- Huh? :)

> thank you for your kind bug report.
 I have to thank you for helping me. I was able to fix it by passing
"-Dbuild.compiler=jikes" to ant.

> Please file a wishlist bug 
> report with ant developers for that.
 Will do.

> Sun's tools.jar is completely undocumented. It is rumoured to contain 
> their javac compiler, and may contain other classes that are not part of 
> the specified Java APIs.
 As bytecode can be reverse engineered, one can check it out what those
classes do. I tend to think someone already do that.

> Sun actually condemns the use of those 
> undocumented APIs, but it doesn't seem to prevent people from abusing 
> them ;)
 That's the real problem. :(

> Run anywhere, yeah, right ;)
 Write once, Debug everywhere. :) Sorry, bad joke.

Anyway, off to check what does this mean:
    [javac]     49. import javax.swing.text.html.parser.ParserDelegator;
    [javac]                ^------------------------------------------^
    [javac] *** Semantic Error: The import
"javax/swing/text/html/parser/ParserDelegator" is not valid, since it
does not name a type in a package.

It's a shame that I used to programming in Java using ant and jikes, and
now that I revisit them I hardly know anything. :)

Thanks again,
Laszlo