From owner-java@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Dec 16 18:16:37 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id SAA25345 for java-outgoing; Tue, 16 Dec 1997 18:16:37 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-java@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from whistle.com (s205m131.whistle.com [207.76.205.131]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id SAA25338 for ; Tue, 16 Dec 1997 18:16:29 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from archie@whistle.com) Received: (from smap@localhost) by whistle.com (8.7.5/8.6.12) id SAA04245; Tue, 16 Dec 1997 18:15:59 -0800 (PST) Received: from bubba.whistle.com(207.76.205.7) by whistle.com via smap (V1.3) id sma004239; Tue Dec 16 18:15:31 1997 Received: (from archie@localhost) by bubba.whistle.com (8.8.7/8.6.12) id SAA14368; Tue, 16 Dec 1997 18:15:30 -0800 (PST) From: Archie Cobbs Message-Id: <199712170215.SAA14368@bubba.whistle.com> Subject: Re: Goals for the JDK port In-Reply-To: <19971215174023.27352@relay.nuxi.com> from "David E. O'Brien" at "Dec 15, 97 05:40:23 pm" To: obrien@NUXI.com Date: Tue, 16 Dec 1997 18:15:30 -0800 (PST) Cc: freebsd-java@FreeBSD.ORG X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL31 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-java@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk David E. O'Brien writes: > > There's been a lot of talk about CVS repository, make files, etc. > > There's been one thing I've been curious about. What are the goals of > > the port? > > An added question. Some on the list wanted to use GNU tools, notable > gmake because it is more "portable". But if we can only release diffs > agaist the machine dependant parts of the code, aren't the patches from > this group enharently NOT portable. I think you may be referring to the discussion about the Java makefiles on ftp.whistle.com... if so, that was a different discussion. We were just talking about making the makefiles themselves portable.. nothing to do with JDK. -Archie ___________________________________________________________________________ Archie Cobbs * Whistle Communications, Inc. * http://www.whistle.com