Re: [Sablevm-developer] while building ant... Success!

[Etienne M. G. <eti...@uq...>]

On Sun, Aug 11, 2002 at 06:13:47PM +0200, Grzegorz Prokopski wrote:
> So I played a bit with it, cleaned up the packages a little bit more,
> and... it worked!

Wow!

> I got ant compiled and ant.jar got created.

Amazing.

> Now I got to the stage where 'javadoc' program is being used...
> (it didn't worked as you could expect) hmm...
> I belive we have com.sun.javadoc in classpath - should we have
> some kind of a wrapper in sablevm package?

Isn't this the bit which is missing the "legal" linking exception?  I
was planning to remove that stuf...

> It seems that kaffe for ex. has 'javadoc' wrapper. It's this:
> #! /bin/sh
> # Script to run Sun's documenter
> prefix=/usr
> exec_prefix=${prefix}
> exec ${exec_prefix}/bin/kaffe sun.tools.javadoc.Main ${1+"$@"}

Yes, we could make some utility scripts.  As long as they are LGPL'ed,
I could include them in sablevm-x.y.z.tar.gz.

> So the packages are working, now I'll be looking forward for ideas
> on how to improve them. Currently I mostly think of how to provide
> JAVA_HOME environment (I think in /usr/lib/sablevm/), with any needed
> wrappers etc. in it. Any thoughts are welcomed.

Can you explain to me how this JAVA_HOME works?  What is it useful for?

> The packages are available at http://debian.sente.pl/debian
> /etc/apt/sources.lists line is this:
> deb http://debian.sente.pl ./

Great!!!

> apt-get update; apt-get install sablevm
> should do the the trick

I'm just trying it now.

> 
> Best regards

Thanks a lot!

Etienne

PS: As I said before, actually running ant can get you into trouble,
because of some reflection holes.  I'll try to fix the Method.invoke
one, and I'll keep you informed as soon as it is done.

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