[Laszlo-dev] Re: Ant 1.6.1

[Joseph Silverman]

On Mac OS X there was a problem with the VERSION of jikes, I  
believe.  There were other reasons we had to specify a full path -  
don't recall them all

- Yossie

On Nov 22, 2005, at 10:07 AM, Oliver Steele wrote:

> On Nov 22, 2005, at 1:01 PM, Scott Evans wrote:
>> Yah, build.compiler sets the compiler to be sued, but as far as I  
>> can tell
>> from reading the ant source, there's no way to tell it where to  
>> find the
>> executable short of using that attribute.  And of course the ant  
>> docs are
>> a little spotty on this.  Mika, ideas?  How did you deal with the  
>> jikes
>> thing in your 1.6.x port?
>
> Why is it necessary to specify a pathname for jikes, instead of  
> using the one in the user's path?