Re: kaffe status
On Wed, 21 Nov 2001, Per Bothner wrote:
> Adam Heath wrote:
>
> >I have found that, in theory, gcj and gij are compatible, in reality they are
> >not. To be compatable, they *MUST* take *EXACTLY* the same arguments as other
> >standard $(JAVA) and $(JAVAC).
> >
> >I've had to put special code into my own build system to switch between
> >standard jvms and the gcj suite.
> >
> I'm not sure what you mean by "other standard $(JAVA) and $(JAVAC)",
> except by by reference to what JDK does. We do try to match at least the
> most generally-used flags. Patches to improve the command-line processing
> of 'gij' and 'gcj -C' so they better match 'java' and 'java' would be
> very welcome;
> in lieu of that a gnats bug report would also be welcome so at least we know
> there is a problem. (No guarantee that it will be fixed, of course.)
Well, -classpath(jdk), --classpath(gcj). Having to specify -C to compile to
.class.
The goal is to just update an alternative, and be able to use gcj. However,
this is not yet p ossible. A wrapper script would suffice, however.
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