Re: [Classpath] Re: Classpath building (was re: Classpath future?)

[John Leuner]

On Thu, Jul 12, 2001 at 05:25:51PM -0400, C. Scott Ananian wrote:
> On Thu, 12 Jul 2001, Aaron M. Renn wrote:
> 
> > depending on an already existing Java library installation.  There are
> > too many classes to simply pipe them all into the compiler on the
> > command line.
> 
> really?  I've got 172,301 lines of java source (in 877 files) which I
> compile by doing *exactly that*.  Takes jikes about 10 seconds.
> 
> I don't think you should discard this alternative.  Maybe it's not the
> only way, but it's effective for bootstrapping.  And jikes, I believe,
> lets you put the list of source files in a separate file so that
> command-line limitations are not an issue, either.
 
In my debian package of classpath (with my VM specific files included), I have 
a list of sources in a variable that I pass to jikes. No problem.

I only compile a subset of classpath.

John Leuner