[Laszlo-dev] Re: Ant 1.6.1

[Oliver Steele]

On Nov 22, 2005, at 7:33 AM, P T Withington wrote:
> Doe you mean Jikes is a faster compiler, or that it generates code  
> that is faster?  And is this still the case?

It was a much faster compiler.  I don't have data for whether it  
still is, although it seems likely.

> 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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