dman muttered: > On Tue, Aug 14, 2001 at 08:49:49AM -0700, Paul Mackinney wrote: > > | I've heard that the Sun and Blackdown are identical for jdk1.3, I've > | installed both and on the surface they appeared identical. By inspecting > | one of the Blackdown mirror sites, I was able to successfully configure > | my sources.list file and persuade apt to work. > > Yeah, the Blackdown people signed an NDA with Sun in order to port the > Sun jdk to Linux. I think now Sun has decided to actually distribute > a Linux JDK directly from their website so they use the Blackdown > people's work. > > | I use 'javac' to compile .java to .class, 'java' to run .class files. > | I've heard that gcj is only 1.0 compatible. Any know of a jdk1.3 > | compatible compiler to create binaries? > > Do you mean like native binaries? If so, then no. Otherwise I use > jikes because it is nice and fast and produces better error messages > (IMO). > Yes, I meant native binaries which supposedly gcj will do but I haven't tried because it's so obviously out of date. I'll give jikes a try.
Question: dselect wants to install something to give me Java VM to go with jikes (e.g., kaffe, jdk1.1). Should I just override this and install jikes by itself? Is there a graceful way to tell dselect that Java VM is already installed? TIA, Paul -- Paul Mackinney [EMAIL PROTECTED] <- Please note new email address
