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Re: [Classpath] Re: Classpath building (was re: Classpath future?)
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John Leuner |
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Re: [Classpath] Re: Classpath building (was re: Classpath future?) |
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Thu, 12 Jul 2001 21:46:15 +0000 |
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On Thu, Jul 12, 2001 at 05:25:51PM -0400, C. Scott Ananian wrote:
> On Thu, 12 Jul 2001, Aaron M. Renn wrote:
>
> > depending on an already existing Java library installation. There are
> > too many classes to simply pipe them all into the compiler on the
> > command line.
>
> really? I've got 172,301 lines of java source (in 877 files) which I
> compile by doing *exactly that*. Takes jikes about 10 seconds.
>
> I don't think you should discard this alternative. Maybe it's not the
> only way, but it's effective for bootstrapping. And jikes, I believe,
> lets you put the list of source files in a separate file so that
> command-line limitations are not an issue, either.
In my debian package of classpath (with my VM specific files included), I have
a list of sources in a variable that I pass to jikes. No problem.
I only compile a subset of classpath.
John Leuner