Date: Mon, 25 Feb 2002 18:24:46 +0100 (CET) From: Herve Quiroz <hquiroz@esil.univ-mrs.fr> To: Nate Williams <nate@yogotech.com> Cc: freebsd-java@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: bsd.java.mk and native jdk1.3.1p6 Message-ID: <20020225181523.E67358-100000@puget.esil.univ-mrs.fr> In-Reply-To: <15482.27689.514402.133071@caddis.yogotech.com>
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> Sure, but hopefully (knock on wood) we will get a binary release of the > JDK out soon enough, such that regular users won't have to compile the > JDK at all. Sounds geek but I prefer compiling that installing binaries. But I agree most users will use the binary distribution available. > The reasons for not using Jikes is not a good idea (IMHO) is: > > 1) It requires alot of changes to the existing Makefile structure as > released from Sun. Maybe some awk/sed surgery... ;) > 2) Even if #1 is done, we would have to maintain these changes on our > own, and Sun has shown a propensity to radically change the build > environment between releases, such that the work would have to be > redone everytime a new release of the JDK was released. Maybe the #1 surgery could be (quite) easily preformed again with just some little modification. > A binary release would solve most of the user problems, so hopefully > that will happen soon. (And no, I don't know when it will happen.) Soon people all around the world will bow before the Java/FreeBSD alliance brandishing the HotSpot banner... but not before a 10+ hours of compiling :( Herv=E9 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-java" in the body of the message
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