RE: Classpath build process and VM-specific issues

[Jeroen Frijters]

Etienne Gagnon wrote:
> Grzegorz Prokopski and I are working on a set of m4 macros (that would
> not require understanding "m4" to be used) to allow minimal 
> customization of VM*.java classes for each VM, while retaining most of
> the code sharing across all VMs that can work with the default
VM*.java
> setup.

My vote is firmly against introducing macros. Unless it is done in such
a way that the resulting code is still valid Java code, so that
Classpath can still be compiled without running m4 or any of the build
scripts.

Regards,
Jeroen