Re: kaffe 1.1.6 Debian package in Oldenburg

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Arnaud Vandyck <avdyk <at> debian.org> writes:

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> 
> Wolfgang Baer wrote:
> > Arnaud Vandyck wrote:
> [... about switching from jikes to ecj to build classes in kaffe]
> >>Wow!  I think we should switch to ecj on mipsel too... and why not on
> >>all the arches?
> > 
> > No, ecj is not available on mipsel as there is no gcj. For the other
> > arches I _think_ jikes is still better in time and memory usage.
> 
> Sight. Another way to solve this is to split arch-dep and arch-indep in
> the build. This is a waste of time and resources to build java files on
> each arches. Build the classes onces and only build the C files on all
> arches would be better.

Ideally kaffe would just depend on the classpath package, but neither Kaffe nor
GNU Classpath are there yet. Working on it ;)

cheers,
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