From owner-freebsd-hackers Tue Feb 20 12: 1:53 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from flood.ping.uio.no (flood.ping.uio.no [129.240.78.31]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8A07037B6CE for ; Tue, 20 Feb 2001 12:01:40 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from des@ofug.org) Received: (from des@localhost) by flood.ping.uio.no (8.9.3/8.9.3) id VAA35739; Tue, 20 Feb 2001 21:01:30 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from des@ofug.org) X-URL: http://www.ofug.org/~des/ X-Disclaimer: The views expressed in this message do not necessarily coincide with those of any organisation or company with which I am or have been affiliated. To: nate@yogotech.com (Nate Williams) Cc: Jason Brazile , freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: make bug? (dependency names with '$') References: <200102201154.MAA00515@disco.netcetera.ch> <14994.50826.777697.32696@nomad.yogotech.com> From: Dag-Erling Smorgrav Date: 20 Feb 2001 21:01:29 +0100 In-Reply-To: Nate Williams's message of "Tue, 20 Feb 2001 12:33:30 -0700 (MST)" Message-ID: Lines: 20 User-Agent: Gnus/5.0802 (Gnus v5.8.2) Emacs/20.4 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Nate Williams writes: > Disagree. If you want it to be portable, don't use a non-standard > extension to a tool, such as jikes dependency features. > > We used jikes for our day-day development, but move back to using > 'javac' for our Q/A and final builds. That way we can complain to Sun > when things don't work. ;) So what's the problem? javac also automatically builds dependencies, it's just not as good at it as jikes. For a final build, you want to start with a clean tree anyway, so javac's inability to correctly detect if a dependency is out of date is irrelevant. Also, my experience is that unless you're paying Sun significant amounts of $$, their reaction to bug reports is to close their eyes, hum real loud and hope they go away. DES -- Dag-Erling Smorgrav - des@ofug.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message