bug#26966: [PATCH 01/22] gnu: Add jikes.

[Roel Janssen]

Ricardo Wurmus writes:

> From: Ricardo Wurmus <address@hidden>
>
> * gnu/packages/java.scm (jikes): New variable.
> ---
>  gnu/packages/java.scm | 42 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
>  1 file changed, 42 insertions(+)
>
> diff --git a/gnu/packages/java.scm b/gnu/packages/java.scm
> index 188ca7e97..c0f3e7784 100644
> --- a/gnu/packages/java.scm
> +++ b/gnu/packages/java.scm
> @@ -60,6 +60,48 @@
>    #:use-module (srfi srfi-11)
>    #:use-module (ice-9 match))
>  
> +
> +;;;
> +;;; Java bootstrap toolchain.
> +;;;
> +
> +;; The Java bootstrap begins with Jikes, a Java compiler.  We use it to build
> +;; the SableVM standard library and virtual machine.  This is sufficient to
> +;; build an older version of Ant, which is needed to build an older version 
> of
> +;; ECJ, an incremental Java compiler.
> +;;
> +;; ECJ is needed to build the latest release of GNU Classpath (0.99).
> +;; Classpath (> 0.98) is a requirement for JamVM, a more modern 
> implementation
> +;; of the Java virtual machine.
> +;;
> +;; With JamVM we can build the latest development version of GNU Classpath,
> +;; which has much more support for Java 1.6 than the latest release.  Since
> +;; the previous build of JamVM is limited by the use of GNU Classpath 0.99 we
> +;; rebuild it with the latest development version of GNU Classpath.
> +;;
> +;; Finally, we use the bootstrap toolchain to build the OpenJDK with the
> +;; Icedtea 1.x build framework.  We then build the more recent JDKs Icedtea
> +;; 2.x and Icedtea 3.x.
> +
> +(define jikes
> +  (package
> +    (name "jikes")
> +    (version "1.22")
> +    (source (origin
> +              (method url-fetch)
> +              (uri (string-append "mirror://sourceforge/jikes/Jikes/"
> +                                  version "/jikes-" version ".tar.bz2"))
> +              (sha256
> +               (base32
> +                "1qqldrp74pzpy5ly421srqn30qppmm9cvjiqdngk8hf47dv2rc0c"))))
> +    (build-system gnu-build-system)
> +    (home-page "http://jikes.sourceforge.net/";)
> +    (synopsis "Compiler for the Java language")
> +    (description "Jikes is a compiler that translates Java source files as
> +defined in The Java Language Specification into the bytecoded instruction set
> +and binary format defined in The Java Virtual Machine Specification.")
> +    (license license:ibmpl1.0)))
> +
>  (define-public java-swt
>    (package
>      (name "java-swt")

I had expected a much larger patch. ;)

LGTM!

Kind regards,
Roel Janssen