[Laszlo-dev] Re: Ant 1.6.1

[P T Withington]

Doe you mean Jikes is a faster compiler, or that it generates code  
that is faster?  And is this still the case?

As Mika (cc-ed) has pointed out, in 1.6 you could dispense with the  
exec tasks, which might outweigh the Jikes advantage.

On 22 Nov 2005, at 07:06, Oliver Steele wrote:

> 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.
>
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