[kaffe] Re: running Java applications within kaffe (Re: [kaffe] shutdownHook changes broke the build)

[Jim Pick]

On Mon, 2003-07-14 at 03:34, Dalibor Topic wrote:
> Salut Guilhem,
> 
> Guilhem Lavaux wrote:
> 
> >> I'll check in a patch that delegates running of kjc & pizza to another 
> >> VM instance through Runtime.exec, since that seems to be the sane 
> >> thing to do ;)
> >>
> >> cheers,
> >> dalibor topic
> > 
> > 
> > Hi dalibor !
> > 
> > Ok, have you tested the patch against KJC ? I am not sure they are 
> > active anymore (I tried to download from the CVS but I only get a timeout).
> 
> I still have to write it, actually ;) I'll do it tonight, and then I'll 
> take a look at rmic to see how it calls the compiler to test it.
> 
> > If you want I can provide you a new binary for KJC (based on KJC 2.1B).
> 
> That would be very nice, but I'll try to rebuild it myself first, and to 
> run the jacks java compiler test suite against it.
> 
> Then I'll put your patch into the developers directory and check in the 
> updated kjc.jar. You may want to change the version information as well, 
> to kjc-2.1B-gl-1 or something like that.
> 
> Jim, could you post an update on your plans for the 
> kaffe-external-libraries repository?
> 
> cheers,
> dalibor topic

I still haven't gotten the "kaffe-external-jars" thing done yet. 
Unfortunately, my time's been pretty tight the last two weeks.  It's at
the top of my list of things to do now...

Please feel free to update kjc.jar, and post or check in the patch!  :-)

Cheers,

 - Jim