[kaffe] Re: CVS kaffe (robilad): Reworked java compiler detection and test ccompilation

[Dalibor Topic]

Kiyo Inaba wrote:
> Hi Dalibor and others,
>
> Dalibor wrote: (slightly reformat)
>   
>> I've changed the compilation of the regression steps to compile all
>> tests in a single step, which should speed up the regression tests
>> in particular for users using ecj / javac on a JVM, as that eliminates
>> around 150 JVM invocations.
>>     
>
> This is the great news for me! After I changed to use ecj for all
> platforms, the regression testing itself took more than 51 hours
> on m68k (Mac-IIci, netbsd) :-< For the next weekly regression test,
> I can see whether things becomes better or not.
>
>   
I hope they will become radically better ;)
>> The patch reworked the detection of the Java programming language
>> compiler to use code from ac-archive.sf.net (slightly adapted).
>>     
>
> The auto detection itself is welcome, but still I want to have
> explicit way to specify which compiler is my preference. Since
> I still use jikes for some other staff, but when making regression
> test of kaffe I need to use ecj (jikes does not like classpath-0.96.1).
>
>   

Yeah. Just pass the compiler you want to use to configure in the
JAVAC variable. configure JAVAC=jikes should do the job.

cheers,
dalibor topic
> Kiyo
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