From owner-freebsd-hackers Tue Feb 20 11:36: 1 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from ns.yogotech.com (ns.yogotech.com [206.127.123.66]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 93FF037B503 for ; Tue, 20 Feb 2001 11:35:54 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from nate@yogotech.com) Received: from nomad.yogotech.com (yogotech.nokia.com [4.22.66.156]) by ns.yogotech.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id MAA17494; Tue, 20 Feb 2001 12:35:38 -0700 (MST) (envelope-from nate@nomad.yogotech.com) Received: (from nate@localhost) by nomad.yogotech.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) id MAA05819; Tue, 20 Feb 2001 12:29:14 -0700 (MST) (envelope-from nate) From: Nate Williams MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <14994.50569.335995.104938@nomad.yogotech.com> Date: Tue, 20 Feb 2001 12:29:13 -0700 (MST) To: "Koster, K.J." Cc: "'Jason Brazile'" , freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: RE: make bug? (dependency names with '$') In-Reply-To: <59063B5B4D98D311BC0D0001FA7E4522026D7C43@l04.research.kpn.com> References: <59063B5B4D98D311BC0D0001FA7E4522026D7C43@l04.research.kpn.com> X-Mailer: VM 6.75 under 21.1 (patch 12) "Channel Islands" XEmacs Lucid Reply-To: nate@yogotech.com (Nate Williams) Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > > > > I want to construct a portable Makefile to build a java application. > > > I've played with Java and Make in the past, but I found that spawning a new > instance of the Java compiler is more expensive than compiling a pretty big > bunch of files. gcc starts up a lot quicker than a JVM. Jikes is your friend. We switched from using javac because of this. Nate ps. This should probably be moved to freebsd-java. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message