Ability to override compiler from environment

[Thorbjørn Ravn Andersen]

Mark Wielaard skrev  den 26-06-2008 08:31:
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>> The script first looks for an awk and finds /usr/bin/nawk, and then 
>> explicitly later looks for gawk.  export GAWK=/usr/bin/nawk got me over 
>> that test.
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> It explicitly tests for gawk since that is what the build says it
> requires.
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Good reason!

> dnl OpenJDK's README-builds.html lists gawk as a build dependency so we
> dnl check for it explicitly rather than using AC_PROG_AWK.
> FIND_TOOL([GAWK], [gawk])
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>> It requires both an ecj.jar and a libgcj.jar.  Are both necessary?
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> Yes, one is a compiler and one is a core class library set.
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But are they necessary if there is a Java6 JDK available?  This IS 
Solaris :)


>> I'll look at building lesstif and see what happens then...
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> This really shouldn't be necessary anymore. At least not for
> icedtea/jdk7, there might still be some header constants used in
> icedtea6/openjdk6, but if so we should backport the fixes to remove them
> and remove this check.
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I think I'll continue this discussion up on the icetea list.  My fingers 
cannot get used to the missing Reply-to header on this list.

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  Thorbjørn