Re: classpath ./ChangeLog lib/standard.omit

[Mark Wielaard]

Hi,

On Sun, Oct 28, 2001 at 01:30:37PM +1300, Bryce McKinlay wrote:
> AWTEvent depends on Event.java, which for some reason doesn't exist in 
> Classpath. If you compile classpath with javac its okay because javac 
> finds Event in its own classes, but it won't work if you try to 
> bootstrap with jikes or gcj -C without having Sun's class libraries 
> around. So, java.awt should probibly be omitted by default until that 
> gets sorted.

Theoretically you are right. But John Leuner recently removed all Event
support from Classpath. While not the most elegant solution this should
make Classpath awt compile out of the box. And it does for me.

How did you configure? Maybe your checkout is not completely up to date?
As a workaround you can use libgcj.jar or Klasses.zip (from kaffe) in
your classpath, but that should not be neccessary.

I would like to see the standard.omit file as small as possible.
Ideally for me all java files in the cvs tree should be compilable
with gcj, jikes or kjc without any additional (boot)classpaths set.
And we would only select the class files that we don't want to
ship by default.

Cheers,

Mark
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