[kaffe] CVS kaffe-extras (dalibor): Updated to jikes 1.21

[Dalibor Topic]

Kiyo Inaba wrote:
> In-Reply-To: <E1BxRyp-0005Af-00 at pogo.kaffe.org>
> Hi Dalibor,
> 
> You are too tarse, but this may indicate jikes-1.21 can be the latest
> 'stable' release for kaffe. Am I right?

Well, it works for me(TM), I'm using 1.21 daily to hack on kaffe :) I'm 
changing kaffe-extras to use jikes in order to make it easier to build 
the projects involved in building kaffe's kjc, as Guilhem asked me for 
that on IRC. Using kjc from 1.1.4 for that proved to be rather hard, 
since ant's build.xml had to be patched to bootstrap, and so on. Using 
jikes for the bootstrap, things work faster, and with less manual labour 
involved. [1]

So a build of Kaffe's kjc frm scratch takes just around 3 minutes for me 
now, including the time to fetch the tarballs, and extract them.

cheers,
dalibor topic

[1] Not that there is anything problematic with kjc, it's just that most 
people expect greedy compilers when they write a build.xml file, so 
things break with kjc. Kjc expects to be delivered all the files needed 
in a compilation run on the command line. That's contrary to jikes, or 
Sun's javac, which will go looking for sources for classes that are 
referenced by the classes on the command line. Both approaches have 
their pros and cons. :)