Re: Compiling with jikes > 1.13

[Mark Wielaard]

Hi,

Chris Gray wrote:
> With Wonka we've had problems with every version after 1.12.1 (!).
> "Problems" includes: dumps core on valid input, outputs illegal
> bytecode

Stuart Ballard wrote:
> FWIW, I had to put jikes in debian/unstable on hold at 1.14-0.4 because
> it started doing nasty things to my own application. But I haven't tried
> compiling classpath with it, so it may work for that purpose.

Etienne M. Gagnon wrote:
> Hmmm... I experienced problems compiling Classpath with jikes 1.14.  These 
> problem went away when I installed jikes 1.15 on my Debian/sid system...

John Leuner wrote:
> There were issues (don't remember exactly what), but I've been using
> the jikes 1.15 in debian/unstable and it seems to work fine. (I have
> compiled all of classpath with it)

OK. So it seems that we can recommend jikes 1.15 for compiling Classpath
but it may have some problems for other applications. I will put that in
the HACKING and INSTALL notices.

Have people with jikes problems actaully reported them to the jikes
developers? We can try to recompile Wonka with 1.15 to see what happens.
Stuart, what program were you using which forced you to downgrade to
1.14?

Cheers,

Mark