Re: Build and install without compiling java files?

[Archie Cobbs]

C. Brian Jones wrote:
>>I think there is no real need for it. It just bloats the source 
>>tarball. All sources are included inside to tarball to build it.
> 
> Actually there is a pretty good reason to have the built classes
> distributed.  The fact is that results vary according to which "free"
> and broken compiler you use to compile Classpath.  None of them really
> pass Jacks that I know of.  New 1.5 features aren't supported anywhere
> in a production ready and easily available compiler (as in is already
> part of a popular distribution), and we thankfully don't include those
> in the main branch yet.
> 
> And actually including the glibj.zip is a very popular thing, at least
> from actual users.  For the rest of us who would rather change or fix
> things it matters very little.  Again this can probably be solved by
> someone with a lot of initiative making something available to easily
> integrate into jpackage environments or the like to handle the actual
> distribution requirements vs. the developer requirements to only ship
> source and no binaries.

For what it's worth, I'm an actual user :-) and would like to see it
remain, along with a ./configure flag added allowing installing it
without rebuilding it. This would particularly help with people using
JC because when people build Classpath with the "wrong" Java compiler,
this causes all the pre-generated C source files that ship with JC to
become invalid and have to be regenerated, which takes a long time.

Thanks,
-Archie

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