Date: Mon, 19 Mar 2012 14:59:34 -0700 From: Jason Helfman <jgh@FreeBSD.org> To: Greg Lewis <glewis@eyesbeyond.com> Cc: freebsd-eclipse@freebsd.org, freebsd-java@freebsd.org Subject: Re: [RFC] New Port: Eclipse Java Compiler, java/eclipse-ecj Message-ID: <20120319215933.GG46825@dormouse.experts-exchange.com> In-Reply-To: <20120319193152.GD46825@dormouse.experts-exchange.com> References: <20120318180225.GA51618@dormouse.experts-exchange.com> <20120319155752.GA78240@misty.eyesbeyond.com> <20120319193152.GD46825@dormouse.experts-exchange.com>
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On Mon, Mar 19, 2012 at 12:31:52PM -0700, Jason Helfman thus spake: >On Mon, Mar 19, 2012 at 08:57:52AM -0700, Greg Lewis thus spake: >>G'day Jason, >> >>On Sun, Mar 18, 2012 at 11:02:25AM -0700, Jason Helfman wrote: >>> Hello All, >>> >>> I was looking through this pr: >>> http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=ports/151923 >>> >>> And saw the final idea was to just build icedtea. I found one of the build >>> requirements to be the the Eclipse Java Compiler, but didn't find this in >>> the tree. >>> >>> I've used the ecj.jar for sometime now compiling outside of the Eclipse >>> environment, and thought it would be a good idea to get this into the tree, >>> if it isn't already there. >>> >>> I didn't see the compiler in the tree, and thought it could help in getting >>> a final solution together for not just this pr, but I believe it would move >>> along some other efforts, as well. >>> >>> If this does nothing at all, I would hope it just provides the bare minimum >>> compiler. >>> >>> Attached is the shell archive of Eclipse Java Compiler. If there are no >>> objections I was going to put this into the tree this week. >> >>I'd like to see ECJ in the ports tree. >> >>One question on the port. It looks like it only installs ecj.jar. >>Wouldn't it also be useful to install a script to run it? I can certainly >>manually type 'java -jar /usr/local/share/java/classes/ecj.jar -classpath >>rt.jar Foo.java', but it would be simpler if there was an ecj script that >>maybe just let me do 'ecj Foo.java'. Is there a good reason not to write >>such a script? > >I can't see of a reason to have that, however I can see a reason to at least >have a package message to that affect. I'm not sure how to account for an >unknown amount of arguments in a shell script, unless there is only ever >going to be one argument? If the latter is the case, then including a shell >script would be nice. > >How does this work? > >#!/bin/sh > >%%JAVA%% -jar %%JAVAJARDIR%%/%%PORTNAME%%.jar -classpath $1 > I was able to get this to work: #!/bin/sh %%JAVAC%% -classpath %%JAVAJARDIR%%/ecj.jar $1 I will put this through, and any changes can just be put through the pr system. Thanks, Greg! -jgh -- Jason Helfman | FreeBSD Committer jgh@FreeBSD.org | http://people.freebsd.org/~jgh
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