[Laszlo-dev] Re: Ant 1.6.1

[Oliver Steele]

Jikes is much faster.  Google says <http://ant.apache.org/manual/ 
CoreTasks/javac.html> that there's a build.compiler attribute.  Is  
this page for a different version of ant?

On Nov 21, 2005, at 11:50 PM, Scott Evans wrote:

> ah!
>
> But that's one of very few things that's keeping us from using a stock
> ant 1.6.5.  And stock is better, no?
>
> Seems like it'd be better, if we must use jikes, to use the  
> 'executable'
> attribute that was added in 1.6, even if we have to put it on every  
> javac
> command.
>
>
> gse
>
>
> On Mon, 21 Nov 2005, Joseph Silverman wrote:
>
>> actually, ant 1.5 in //depot/tools has been modded, by yours  
>> truly, to allow a
>> jikes compiler path to be passed into it.  you will have to apply  
>> that mod to
>> ant 1.6 to get similar functionality!
>>
>> On Nov 21, 2005, at 6:17 PM, Scott Evans wrote:
>>
>>> I'm trying to get lps-pave to build with ant 1.6.5 -- I've had to  
>>> make
>>> very few changes so far but I can't get Jikes to work.  It seems  
>>> that
>>> 1.6.? may determine the jikes executable differently.  Our  
>>> current code
>>> does this by setting build.compiler.path -- but I don't see any  
>>> reference
>>> to build.compiler.path in the ant source code.
>>>
>>> There's now an "executable" attribute that you can add to all  
>>> <javac/>
>>> elements, but that seems non-universal and therefore stupid.  It  
>>> does
>>> work, however.
>>>
>>> Anyone know anything about this?
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> On Sat, 19 Nov 2005, P T Withington wrote:
>>>
>>>> Just getting around to trying this out, because I want to enable
>>>> assertions in
>>>> our .java.
>>>>
>>>> Seems to work fine for me for building.
>>>>
>>>> On 17 Mar 2004, at 14:31, Joseph Silverman wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> I installed ant version 1.6.1 in the //depot/tools/apache- 
>>>>> ant-1.6.1
>>>>> directory.  I installed, into it, the three .jar files requires to
>>>>> compile
>>>>> LPS.  You can use it by simply setting your ANT_HOME  
>>>>> environment to this
>>>>> directory.  You MIGHT need to make one more change, to the  
>>>>> CLASSPATH
>>>>> environment variable.  I had to change it to reference
>>>>> $TOMCAT_HOME/lib/server/lib/catalina-ant.jar rather than  
>>>>> whatever it was
>>>>> referencing before.
>>>>>
>>>>> Please give this pup a try and get back to me if you have  
>>>>> problems.